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Re: KDE phoning home



Hi.

Rob Brewer - 04.09.25, 16:30:07 CEST:
> > Not using Systemd here, so cannot really comment on that. Grepping the
> > process list during a running Plasma session for "konqi" or "sentry"
> > does not reveal any processes.
> 
> I wish I wasn't using systemd but its difficult to run Debian without
> it. The drkonqi-sentry-postman.service would seem to be on a timer
> which runs at startup and on the hour and presumably started by
> systemd, so unless you check the running process on the hour you would
> probably be unlikely to notice it.

I am pretty sure no one replicated this setup for Runit based systems, so… 
unless KDE starts it by some other means, like for example with "kded", 
then it might just not run here. At least by looking at the package 
drkonqi – see below – it does not seem to be auto started by DBUS in case 
Systemd is not available.

I think in case it is triggered by a timer then you can disable or mask 
the timer. Like

systemctl --user disable drkonqi-sentry-postman.timer
systemctl --user mask drkonqi-sentry-postman.timer

Also… as a last effort brute force approach for now, you could replace the 
binary in "Exec=" in the service file with "/usr/bin/true" or something 
like that. You could also chmod "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/
drkonqi-sentry-postman" to 000. At least as a stop-gap measure.

Those service and timer files are in package "drkonqi". So I bet that is 
the package to report a bug for.

It might even be possible to just remove that package. However in addition 
to some meta packages for some odd reason this would also remove the 
breeze themes for SDDM. So currently I'd not recommend to do that. Also 
you may prefer to keep those meta packages.

Best,
-- 
Martin



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