Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing
On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 20:37, Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> On 9/6/25 8:36 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
[...]
> > This problem only started about a week ago.
> Solved this today by using a rather big hammer. I purged all GVFS
> packages and that has solved this particular problem. GVFS is basically
> a Gnome solution to a Gnome problem. Purging doesn't seem to have
> affected anything else. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Hi,
For many years I've removed GVFS from my LXDE (ie not running Gnome)
systems. That became my habit because it seemed to be holding files open,
which prevents unmounting things.
The only thing that I have noticed is that doing that seems to break the
builtin Help in most Gnome programs. I think that internally they use some
Gnome "URL-like" scheme (it looks like ghelp:somedirectory/helpfile) and
I suspect that the "ghelp" part of that relies on GVFS.
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