colord is activated during ubiquity-dm installation session, is it really needed?

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Recently I started seeing this in syslog when launching ubiquity installer:
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu dbus[1094]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' (using servicehelper)
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Using config file /etc/colord.conf
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Using mapping database file /var/lib/colord/mapping.db
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Using device database file /var/lib/colord/storage.db
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_camera.so
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: plugin /usr/lib/colord-plugins/libcd_plugin_sane.so not loaded: plugin refused to load
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_scanner.so
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Daemon ready for requests
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu ubiquity[3150]: Ubiquity 2.14.1
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu dbus[1094]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager'
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-f5cf9cb1331928471dbcd67d7229aff5
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-d3ee37ff47fcdf614fb5cb62fb3e16a7
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-612c87ff43ce187a724c1c4354428d5c
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-e1818e5a6f09a1cf9984b3752d306ff5
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-b8009c7e612e5ed5ddbd42dcb6eb349c
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-ae0f19a77ff01ea1932ef5fd9609ef9d
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-6590422afc1260c68d531b8de865eda1
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-9282466ab15c12d62ce889610bc427bd
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-068a2ad86446468c029a0d55c061e46c
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-de6232cfa581f3ce8c9c2548f3ac308f
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-adb5ebe2a14b98599a170cd3ab54fe76
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-29f7c3bb18648f967e9cc450f5b0821e
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-0ef971da00dac3a46e0c86550c54d5ad
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-e7ecfce2d984c9f0c90f4ef1cdc9ac7e
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-798efa4314bbd0274499de21fdf4ee5e
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-c191d7b963b91ae51c83722957430c9c
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-709099b11b3ec2828a314682a3c09f75
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-cecd8af52a99dfe8b57b9cd0f4e41ab0
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-ea21dae0f2e604aba058541c1972b7f1
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-aaa3a8cf35289974339049bc4cff354d
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-819072bc37e0ea0042b6c3b28ce8da1a
Apr 10 10:51:27 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-578e8c43d0440cff3239ced4417c691a
Apr 10 10:51:28 ubuntu colord: Profile added: icc-f844a65e79050c828a5f8381a0798e49
Apr 10 10:51:28 ubuntu colord: Device added: xrandr-default

Is colord really needed in the bare-minimal "install ubuntu" session? It was not loaded previously (e.g. early raring and previous releases). Or is it really necessary to load that now?

It would interesting to trace what does activate it. I am randomly guessing gnome-settings-daemon ;-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Dmitrijs, when is "recently"? gnome-settings-daemon didn't change much recently, it seems like the service gets dbus activated, ideally we shouldn't activate it if no profile is active for the user...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

hum, booting a precise iso in desktop mode, colord is running ... I think gnome-settings-daemon dbus activates it and that it's not new, do you have gnome-settings-daemon running? did it used to be the case? do you select the plugins you activate or not?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 19 April 2013 15:37, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> hum, booting a precise iso in desktop mode, colord is running ... I
> think gnome-settings-daemon dbus activates it and that it's not new, do
> you have gnome-settings-daemon running? did it used to be the case? do
> you select the plugins you activate or not?

I'm not talking about Desktop mode aka "Try Ubuntu"
I'm talking about booting the Cd and clicking "Install Ubuntu"
or better at the bootprompt (the a11y human/keyboard icon) press Esc
and select Install Ubuntu.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 19 April 2013 15:32, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hey Dmitrijs, when is "recently"? gnome-settings-daemon didn't change
> much recently, it seems like the service gets dbus activated, ideally we
> shouldn't activate it if no profile is active for the user...

Hmm... I haven't kept install logs of my old machine, but I can look
at the launchpad reported bugs to see when it started appearing.
Something like half way into raring development cycle - roughly.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> booting the Cd and clicking "Install Ubuntu"

right, which is why I asked "do you have gnome-settings-daemon running? did it used to be the case? do you select the plugins you activate or not?"

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 19 April 2013 17:40, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>> booting the Cd and clicking "Install Ubuntu"
>
> right, which is why I asked "do you have gnome-settings-daemon running?
> did it used to be the case? do you select the plugins you activate or
> not?"

right, right =) yes it is running, ubiquity-dm starts it.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> right, right =) yes it is running, ubiquity-dm starts it.

is that new? (I don't understand why you didn't have colord running before if you were already using g-s-d)

I guess you could disable gnome-settings-daemon plugins in ubiquity and only keep those you need, e.g "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color active false"

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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