What is "p-portal" I saw in System Monitor in Linux on several occasions?
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Looking at the following screen shot from System Monitor in Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Linux 4.15.0-1079-oem), you see "(p-portal)" in the process list:
I should have interrogated systemctl, ps and the like while it was up, but was busy on other things and mentally cataloged it for later follow-up. However, I cannot catch it up again! I cannot find it using DuckDuck, Bing or Google search.
I thought it was perhaps associated with Chrome, which I had open at the time, but haven't seen it again with or without Chrome up. I had installed some Perl modules recently (Moo,Text-Template-1.61, Parallel-ForkManager-2.02), but didn't find it among the source files there.
It doesn't appear in the output of
I should have interrogated systemctl, ps and the like while it was up, but was busy on other things and mentally cataloged it for later follow-up. However, I cannot catch it up again! I cannot find it using DuckDuck, Bing or Google search.
I thought it was perhaps associated with Chrome, which I had open at the time, but haven't seen it again with or without Chrome up. I had installed some Perl modules recently (Moo,Text-Template-1.61, Parallel-ForkManager-2.02), but didn't find it among the source files there.
It doesn't appear in the output of systemctl list-unit-files at other times (as I said, I didn't check while it was visible in system monitor), nor output of pstree nor output from ps combined with xlsclients per the answer at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/175380/how-to-list-all-running-daemons
I would appreciate hearing if anyone has encountered this process "p-portal" and knows what it is/does.
Asked by Dalton Bentley
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Sep 7, 2024, 03:07 PM
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