Bill Miller, this is promising research. We just tried reverting two systems based on your Ask Ubuntu answer, which is what I think Dan saw. We don't have an older version of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk to revert to on our 22.04 systems, but we reverted various combinations of xdg-desktop- portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and the syslog spam continued. We then re-applied both updates and on one system the messages stopped (at least as of now). On the other system they continued. Very strange. So there's some interaction with what's happening to Dan and me. Thanks for your work on this.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-desktop-portal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998680 Title: The latest update to xdg-desktop-portal causes caja plugins to throw thousands of errors filling the syslog Status in xdg-desktop-portal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After updates this month to my Ubuntu 20.04 system running MATE desktop with snapd removed. I noticed CPU utilization was up 25% constantly and the syslog was filled with errors from caja plugins. I did a timeshift restore to 11/30 and then did updates one by one. The culprit is xdg-desktop-portal. I removed it from my system and the problems stopped. Apparently this package serves no purpose on a system that does not used snapd or flatpak anyway. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: xdg-desktop-portal 1.6.0-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-56.62~20.04.1-generic 5.15.64 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.25 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Sat Dec 3 17:43:35 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (1681 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) SourcePackage: xdg-desktop-portal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-10-03 (426 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-desktop-portal/+bug/1998680/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp