Delay start of gnome-software service

in this bootchart the system is quiet after 49s if gnome-software service is delayed by 1 minute.

Thanks, that makes sense I think, you tested adding an X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay key to the autostart desktop right and that worked?

Yes, this is the desktop file I used:
"""
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=GNOME Software
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
NoDisplay=true
"""

I tried with 60s but it can probably be more. The drawback is that gnome-software is used as a search provider and package search won't be available until it's running.

Just for clarity, was your test done on a computer with a traditional hard drive or solid state drive?

A rotational hard drive

I just saw that kalev proposed turning it off altogether on the Fedora live CD

https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/pull-request/368#request_diff

...maybe we should?

+1 - I dont think there is a huge benefit to have it auto-start in the live session and starting the live session quicker seems more useful.

Disabling the gnome-software autostart for our live image sounds like a great idea to me.

+1, I filed a separate report in bug 1758920.

right, then we don't need to do this

We still do. That's 2 different things:
- This bug is to improve the session startup time of an installed system
- Bug 1758920 is to lighten the load on the live session. I don't think we want to disable the service on an installed system.

ok, I thought this was about a live session too.

It being about the installed system changes my assessment a bit. In particular, I think it should be discussed with upstream before we press ahead with changing anything about this bug in Ubuntu, whereas the live environment is more special so it's often more okay to do hacks there.

So, please file a bug upstream or come to #gnome-software or post on the ML for a chat.

Assigning myself as there doesn't seem to be a clear decision on if we want this or not (I have not strong opinion either way).

Unassigning myself I mean.

The autostart delay feature never made it upstream [1], so there's not really anything worth discussing with the GNOME Software developers. I figure we just upload it for Ubuntu and then it's in the queue of things to discuss at some point.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608402

@jibel - can you update the bug description to be suitable for SRU?

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-software - 3.29.1-0ubuntu3

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gnome-software (3.29.1-0ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0020-Delay-startup-of-GNOME-Software-to-allow-the-Shell-t.patch:
    - Delay startup of service to allow the shell to load first (LP: #1756379)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:23:54 +1200

This bug is missing SRU information in its description. Could you add a test case and a regression potential analysis? I'll review it then ASAP. Thank you!

Hello Jean-Baptiste, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-software into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Confirmed in bionic /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop contains the X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay field.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-software has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-software - 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.4

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gnome-software (3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.4) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    - Bump build-dependency on libsnapd-glib-dev
  * debian/patches/0020-Show-verified-developers.patch:
    - Show verified developers (LP: #1789336)
  * debian/patches/0011-Support-snap-channels.patch:
  * debian/patches/0021-snap-Use-wide-scope-when-searching.patch:
    - Use wide scope searching (LP: #1789338)
  * debian/patches/0022-Delay-startup-of-GNOME-Software-to-allow-the-Shell-t.patch:
    - Delay startup of service to allow the shell to load first (LP: #1756379)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:27:38 +0200