On 20131231_221413, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:11:26 -0700 > Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > > > > Ok, now it is starting to get interesting. gnome-keyring by itself is a > > > process which should store user credentials. gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so is > > > a library that (judging by name) is called by PolicyKit and is linked > > > to a gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so. > > > > > > About the only reason that justifies storing user credentials if one > > > prints with CUPS is that unlikely case that one configures CUPS instead > > > of it. So, the message is harmless, and can be ignored. > > > > > > Still, something is calling gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so, and that leaves us > > > libgnome-keyring0. > > > > > > Can you post the output of 'aptitude why libgnome-keyring0' please? > > > > > > Reco > > > > root@big:~# aptitude why libgnome-keyring0 > > i gnome-disk-utility Depends libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.22) > > > > I think I use disk-utility when formatting new disks to extN from > > Windows whatever. Does this indicate that I must choose between > > removing garbage warning messages and having a GUI disk utility > > pre-installed for occasional use? > > I hope not. > > Well, in be it another utility, I'd suggest you to rebuild it without > libgnome-keyring dependency. But - since this is GNOME-disk-utility, I > doubt such rebuild will be possible. > > I never understood the need of GUI for formatting (mkfs is all I ever > need for this), so I cannot suggest you the replacement, sadly.
I'm learning about the complexity engendered by having Xwindows as part of the user interface in the beautifully simple structure of traditional Unix. I think I use gnome-disk-utility only to verify my work. Now that I have a much better understanding of the nature of my problem (thanks to you), I think I can accept reality and learn to live with it. Thanks. > > As an experiment, please remove libgnome-keyring0 (should take out > gnome-disk-utility as well), try to print something. I used the interactive interface to aptitude to investigate removing libgnome-keyring0. It offered many ways of accomplishing this goal, all of them involving many removals and installs of other packages, even suggesting install of many kde packages. This is not a path to simplifying my life. I still think there might be a better way to get a functioning Xfce system than the one I have already, but I know I can't contribute much at all to discovering it. My lingering fear is that lightdm will be dropped in jessie and the only display manager offered might be gdm3, which will boot into Gnome3. I think I cannot ever accept Gnome3. It appears to be a clone of Apple Mac which deliberately obfuscates the internal workings of a computer instead of merely ad hoc muddling through as is done by Windows. > To revert the change, invoke 'apt-get install gnome-disk-utility'. > Reco Thanks, and Happy New Year -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140101181507.ge11...@big.lan.gnu