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menteith

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Registered: 2022-01-18

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[SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

Hi Guys,

I often upgrade my Arch from terminal, when I'm logged out from KDE. After upgrading I'm always getting the following message printed to console:

"Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Notifications: Timeout was reached"

To my understanding, `pacman` wants to display notification on KDE, but it cannot be done. Not a big thing, but I need to wait 2 minutes or so to be able to use console since there is a timeout. Could it be turn off?
In other words, I do not want pacman to wait to display notification. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by menteith (2025-05-26 19:51:20)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

No, pacman does not do that. What command are you running, exactly? Post full, complete command and output.

menteith

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Registered: 2022-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

I use the following command:

LANG=C yay --answerdiff None --answerclean None --mflags --noconfirm

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Here's some of the last lines of the above-mentioned command:

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

So this is a yay thing, not sure why you decided to blame pacman.

Please, don't post images of text, post the text itself.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

From a superficial research (docs, bugs, google) this doesn't even seem to be a yay  thing…

type -a yay

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arh

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Registered: 2024-10-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

this possibly looks like it could be a post-transaction pacman hook that triggers a notification after package upgrade so it could be worth to look into your pacman hook directory as well.

menteith

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Registered: 2022-01-18

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

I've found the culprit! I had notification set up in zsh that informed when a long-running task had finished. After removing offending line, everything is working fine.

zplug "plugins/bgnotify",	from:oh-my-zsh

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

from:oh-my-zsh

Quelle surprise…

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menteith

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

Quite surprising, indeed.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quelle_surprise#Phrase
Causin weird bugs is OMZs MO.

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Re: [SOLVED] Slower upgrade due to waiting for notification

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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