Re: preventing rygel from starting at boot time

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

It's PROBABLY enabled in GNOME control center -> Sharing -> Media
sharing. Whatever distributions decide to do on their settings, I
CANNOT control OR decide.

NOTHING in the Debian/Ubuntu package enables Rygel at boot time, IF it
runs then it is started in YOUR user session.


> 1. I like the 'Gnome' desktop. Especially 'gnome-flashback', because
> of
>      it's small memory foot print.
>
> 2. I installed the entire 'Gnome desktop' on my system, mostly for
> the
>      applets and a few of the utility applications.
>
> 3. Unbeknownst to me 'rygel' was installed and set up to start at
> boot
>      time.
>
> 4. I use my system for communication and research, NOT entertainment.
>
> 5. After installing the 'Gnome desktop' on my system I noticed a
>      significant decease in performance, and a huge amount of IO
>      activity that I had NOT initiated.
>
> 6. I started investigating that performance degradation and
>      unauthorized, by myself, IO activity, as it seemed that, in
> spite
>      of all my efforts and clamav, that a virus had infected my
> system.
>
> 6. My investigations found that'rygel' is using an enormous amount of
>       IO, and possibly other resources as well.
>
> 7. I do NOT have a great deal of bandwidth.
>
> 8. Even if I had an unlimited amount of bandwidth, my preference
> would
>      be to allow SETI, or some scientific project inspired by it, to
> use
>      some of the bandwidth, NOT some sort of seemingly entertainment
>      oriented software. (Which, if necessary, I would want to be able
> to
>      start and stop as needed. i.e. Load, when needed, and entirely
>      remove from memory, when no longer needed.)
>
> 9. Removing 'rygel,' via Synaptic, will result in the removal of the
>      entire 'Gnome' desktop.
>
> 10. The'rygel' man page contains *nothing* about how prevent it from
>      being loaded at boot time.
>
> 11. Even 'rygel.conf' merely states …
>
>          [general]
>          # Set it to 'false' if you want to only use the streaming
>          part of Rygel and/or don't want it to advertize itself
>          on the UPnP network. If you want to completely disable
>          rygel, just don't run it then. :)
>          upnp-enabled=true
>
>      However, the neither the man page nor the 'rygel.conf' file
> states
>      HOW to '… just not run it …' even though the mere installation
> of
>      it, sets it up to automatically run at boot time.
>
> Why am I being forced to either stop or get rid of something that
> sets 
> itself up to run at boot time, every time I start up my system, which
> I 
> do not want running on my system at all. Was installed without my 
> knowledge and hides. (Neither 'ps -A' nor 'top' show a process
> called 
> rygel or containing that string.)
>
> How can I stop 'rygel' from running at boot time without putting
> 'rygel 
> --shutdown' into *startup applications*, which doesn't seem to work
> anyway.