Carlos, et alia:
Thank you to everyone for your ideas and comments. Indeed I really do want to clean up my GNOME environment on this Linux based laptop so it functions properly. Even if I were to entirely reinstall Linux I still need to understand why things are happening so they do not occur again the future.
Indeed there was a “VPN IP” extension that was enabled and as such I disabled it which then stopped the errors from getting thrown. I am not often connecting to a VPN currently (as the laptop generally sits on my LAN), thus it is superfluous for me to have it enabled at this juncture.
That said, I did run journalctl with the --follow option and noticed a couple of other errors I just started to research. Any thoughts on these?
This is the first error I see frequently:
Jun 20 07:02:47 hostname-redacted chromium.desktop[4808]: [4808:4813:0620/070247.894880:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:878] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
Jun 20 07:02:57 hostname-redacted chromium.desktop[4808]: [4808:4813:0620/070257.145618:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:878] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
Jun 20 07:03:08 hostname-redacted /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2772]: (II) Axis 0x1 value 736 is outside expected range [1230, 5139]
Jun 20 07:03:08 hostname-redacted /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2772]: See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.28.1/absolute_coordinate_ranges.html for details
Jun 20 07:03:31 hostname-redacted chromium.desktop[4808]: [4808:4813:0620/070331.650139:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:878] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
I am guessing this is because I have a page open in the browser with an invalid certificate?
This is the second error I see frequently:
Jun 20 07:11:08 hostname-redacted systemd[2605]: Started app-gnome-org.gnome.Settings-46918.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
Jun 20 07:11:09 hostname-redacted dbus-daemon[1509]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service' requested by ':1.224' (uid=1000 pid=46918 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-control-center")
Jun 20 07:11:09 hostname-redacted dbus-daemon[1509]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service not found.
Jun 20 07:11:09 hostname-redacted gnome-control-c[46918]: Error connecting to ModemManager: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.ModemManager1: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service not found.
Regarding the second error I see frequently it is perhaps related to the fact that I recently executed:
sudo systemctl disable --now ModemManager.service
in order to prevent the system from constantly throwing errors that the modem was not functioning. Well, the WWAN is not configured and turned on with a mobile phone provider (it’s 3G) so that is correct, but the constant pop-ups on the screen were highly annoying. Thus, the service was disabled. Is there something else I must do to inform GNOME, hay stop trying to muck with ModemManager?
My system does still freeze from time to time and require a power cycle to reboot (, but perhaps over time I will quash enough issues that it will stop. I am hoping that the VPN IP issue will stop the freeze ups, but we will see over time.
Stuart