Is "Freedesktop" needed in Ubuntu 22.04?

[Joncas]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu 22.04
Webmin version	2.021
Virtualmin version	7.7
Related packages	Freedesktop

Excuse me if this is a naive question:
After installing Logcheck which filters out most routine syslog messages, I noticed a lot of entries about updates from “org.freedesktop”
Is Freedesktop actually needed for Virtualmin?
Since it runs on a headless server, there is no desktop … ?

[tpnsolutions]

@Joncas,

It’s possible the app uses common libraries used by it. You’d really need to reach out to the script developer though.

[Joe]

You need to show us exact messages. I can’t even guess what you’re talking about.

But, I will point out that freedesktop.org is the parent organization behind systemd and D-bus (and a slew of other core system libraries), which is core to every modern Linux distribution. So, yeah, you should expect to see mentions of it sometimes on any Linux system.

[Joncas]

Hello Joe,

You are right, it must have to do with updates for d-bus:

Apr 29 11:26:19 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' unit='packagekit.service' requested by ':1.3991' (uid=0 pid=53867 comm="/usr/bin/gdbus call --system --dest org.freedeskto" label="unconfined")
Apr 29 11:26:19 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 29 09:34:04 issole dbus-daemon[747]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.network1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service' requested by ':1.6' (uid=0 pid=810 comm="/usr/bin/networkctl list --no-pager --no-legend " label="unconfined")
Apr 29 09:34:04 issole dbus-daemon[747]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service not found.
Apr 29 09:49:43 issole dbus-daemon[747]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' unit='packagekit.service' requested by ':1.417' (uid=0 pid=11495 comm="/usr/bin/gdbus call --system --dest org.freedeskto" label="unconfined")
Apr 29 09:49:43 issole dbus-daemon[747]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 29 10:46:31 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service' requested by ':1.5' (uid=0 pid=769 comm="/usr/libexec/udisks2/udisksd " label="unconfined")
Apr 29 10:46:31 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Apr 29 10:46:31 issole udisksd[769]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Apr 30 08:42:03 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.fwupd' unit='fwupd.service' requested by ':1.11630' (uid=112 pid=110157 comm="/usr/bin/fwupdmgr refresh " label="unconfined")
Apr 30 08:42:03 issole dbus-daemon[744]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' unit='upower.service' requested by ':1.11631' (uid=0 pid=110167 comm="/usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd " label="unconfined")

I was baffled by the word “desktop” in the logs!

Many thanks for the clarification!