GLib-IO‌-CRITICAL‌ assertion failure log spam about cinnamon-settings-daemon HOT 6 OPEN

Please run:

killall csd-power
killall csd-power (it auto-restarts)
.. until you get 'csd-power: no process found'

Then,

csd-power --verbose

Paste the output from that (up to where it starts spitting out those warnings).

Thanks.

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This is what it prints (then it loops): https://hastebin.com/wasakafovi.yaml

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Can you also paste the output to:

ps auxf

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While trying to reduce the amount of running programs for ps, I noticed that after exiting Steam the logs abruptly stopped.
After starting Steam again, they started again - so there's clearly a correlation.

Anyway, here's the process list with steam running: https://paste.siphalor.de/?a285c4e61535ae46#BZsVAsvdgjibyHd69JbddppMNChereUCDqwEWxE8cV7L

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Ok, I might have found the actual correlation:

Whenever power management is inhibited, this bug begins to occur.
Since Steam just generally inhibits power management, it also causes this bug while it's running.

I still think that this bug actually sits deeper than cinnamon-settings-daemon and these are just the symptoms.

Edit:‌ While I was pretty confident about this guess, the logs just proved me wrong - apparently it also happens when power management is not inhibited.
I think I got tricked by some noise in the data and the fact that refreshing seems to be a lot slower if power management is not inhibited.

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Hey, I just want to come back to this to share the current state:

I'm still experiencing these issues.
Without Steam running, this gets logged occasionally (I‌ think every few minutes a single line).
As soon as I‌ start Steam the rate increases to 2 lines per second and only slows down after stopping it again.

I don't really think anymore, that power management is involved in this too much.
This seems to happen generally, Steam is the only correlation I can make out.

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