What is the clean Manjaro-XFCE stock set of packages forming graphical environment and to be present in distribution?

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cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=“ManjaroLinux”
DISTRIB_RELEASE=“23.0.0”
DISTRIB_CODENAME=“Ultima Thule”
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Manjaro Linux”

XFCE 4.18, GTK 3.24.37, Kernel 5.15.114-2-MANJARO
snap --version
snap 2.59.4
snapd 2.59.4
series 16

WAYLAND 1.22.0-1
xorg-server 21.1.8-1
pulsewire 1:0.3.70-2

Running in virtual machine powered by VirtualBox 6.1.44.

What is the only (proper) Manjaro-XFCE stock set of packages forming graphical/desktop environment and to be present in distribution?
I mean for Manjaro 23.0.0 XFCE how does default graphical environment look like - which package composition does it present?
Manjaro machine user/admin here had eventually messed up with composition of packages related to graphical/desktop environment in past. Manjaro freezes heavily when host’s microphone is attached to Manjaro 1, or other usage sound-area takes place.

In course of trouble shooting following was found: 2

  Jun 19 21:24:52 host xdg-desktop-por[1695]: Failed to create settings proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome: Timeout was reached
  Jun 19 21:25:32 host systemd[1277]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
  Jun 19 21:25:32 host systemd[1277]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
  Jun 19 21:25:32 host systemd[1277]: Failed to start Portal service.
  Jun 19 21:26:01 host dbus-daemon[1291]: [session uid=1000 pid=1291] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)
  Jun 19 21:26:02 host dbus-daemon[1291]: [session uid=1000 pid=1291] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)

Time-stamp of above log corresponds to point of time when Manjaro got durable freez-up upon enabling microphone
host-side for this virtual machine.

  1. Sometimes, speaker generates crackle noises as well while no audio/voice is played back.
  2. There are errors/problem reports in web this area however it was not possible to draw direct conclusions for the case here.

Following track above we found in graphical package management colorful mixture of environment favors and wonder if all found are really necessary that one Manjaro XFCE machine. E.g.
xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
It is hard to make found composition of packages more transparent by finding real redundancies and removing unnecessary ones. Every try to streamline composition fails as every candidate to remove shows reverse dependencies where we get unsure if it is good idea to remove that particular package, or we are sure it is valid dependency upwards.

In web reports of problems regarding pipewire, or xdg or gtk-layer (or such) were found. We could however draw no conclusions for this machine based on those reports.

Was it good idea to populate Manjaro 23.0.0 with snap and snap apps? snap seems to introduce heavy new package dependencies to this Manjaro which weren’t present without snap.

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.114-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=faa32b82-f503-456b-a174-68decd0843af ro quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Oracle Corporation type: 1
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-4570 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4
    level: v2 built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60)
    stepping: 3 microcode: N/A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB
    desc: 2x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3193 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3193 2: 3193 bogomips: 12774
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.19.0.0 ports:
    active: Virtual-1 empty: Virtual-2, Virtual-3, Virtual-4, Virtual-5,
    Virtual-6, Virtual-7, Virtual-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 15ad:0405
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-2:3 chip-ID: 05ac:8511
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
    X: loaded: vmware unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: vmwgfx
    display-ID: :0.0 note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
  Monitor-1: Virtual-1 size-res: N/A modes: max: 0x0 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: SigmaTel
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 chip-ID: 8086:2668
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k5.15.114-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Network:
  Device-1: Red Hat Virtio network driver: virtio-pci v: 1 modules: virtio_pci
    port: 6020 bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 1af4:1000 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: -1 duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
    driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A modules: i2c_piix4 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.0
    chip-ID: 8086:7113 class-ID: 0680
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 95.79 GiB used: 403.67 GiB (421.4%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 31.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 60.03 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 4 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 59.53 GiB size: 58.42 GiB (98.13%) used: 22.01 GiB (37.7%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 31.76 GiB size: 31.15 GiB (98.08%)
    used: 6.29 GiB (20.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon or
    lm-sensors.
Info:
  Processes: 193 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 669 Memory: available: 7.61 GiB
  used: 1.99 GiB (26.2%) Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 Packages: 1005 pm: pacman pkgs: 978
  libs: 303 tools: pamac pm: snap pkgs: 27 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.27
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Take a gander at

  • /desktopfs-pkgs.txt
  • /rootfs-pkgs.txt

OR

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That will no longer be installed since xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is now explicitly installed to avoid that. The changes are only present on the daily development ISOs for now.

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First … please see the following for how to share (and format) system info:



This is likely related to the VERY reported bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, which you should not even have installed in XFCE. Remove it … install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk if needed.

Really?


If you want my real answer ? No. SNAP is terrible, wastes resources, etc etc.

Though … according to your information here … it is not the source of your problems.


Now back to your original query about system packages … I made a tool for that:

You can run it for a test like

./mapare -i -p

Or, since you mentioned graphical environment … maybe you want to target only the ‘desktop’ packages:

./mapare -i -d -p

It will prompt you for your manjaro flavor/desktop - type xfce.

If you want the tool to run the things for you then run the command again omitting the -p (print).

(more info can of course be found by the help, -h)

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Thanks for hint.

$ pacman -Sii xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Repository      : extra
Name            : xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Version         : 44.1-2
...
Provides        : xdg-desktop-portal-impl
...
Required By     : xdg-desktop-portal

It does that above while xdg-desktop-portal 1.8.0-1 is listed in /desktopfs-pkgs.txt.

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Not related. All these packages provide xdg-desktop-portal-impl:

❯ pacman -Ss xdg-desktop-portal-impl
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 44.1-2 (gnome) [installed]
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.14.1-1 [installed]
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 0.4.0-1
    xdg-desktop-portal backend for hyprland
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.27.5-1 (plasma)
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt 0.4.0-1
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5/libfm-qt
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.7.0-1
    xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots

It never was.

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Thanks for hint. How to use this hint when for Manjaro machine addressed xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is reported as dependency of xdg-desktop-portal, see 142703/5?

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It is not THE dependency
xdg-destop-portal depends on any number of the toolkit/DE specific portals.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

Installation

Install xdg-desktop-portal and one or more backends. The package includes a systemd/User service that will be automatically started via D-Bus.

In your case … you likely installed something that requires portal … maybe Flatpak ? … then did not pay attention to the prompt. gnome was suggested first to fill the dependency solely because it is first in the list alphanumerically.

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Flatpak was present long time ago, for one week or so.
Snap is what is present permanently, since long time ago.

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It was only an example, but sure that may have done it.
The only point is … you needed portal for a dependency … and gnome was suggested because its first in the list.
You could probably see this in your logs like

grep -i portal /var/log/pacman.log
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I remember to have learned few months ago XFCE was not 1:1 alternative of GNOME, rather it provides an alternative to GNOME on special way in which it is (in some extent) based on GNOME- reason why set of GNOME user apps/utilities were in use here. That might be context in which GNOME was added to this Manjaro very well.

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No it isnt.
As stated above…
You installed something that required desktop portal as a dependency … and gnome was suggested because it is first in the list alphabetically.
You may be sorta referring to how XFCE and Gnome are both GTK desktops? And/or conflating it with the ‘forks of classic gnome’ that is Mate, etc ? :person_shrugging:

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How bad is it then to have ‘gnome-desktop’ and some, rather small, set of apps installed as for this setup?
It evolved to that set as some helpful user-level utilities were not found at xfce-level.

Well, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome was removed in meantime. For sake of clarity pipewire, and those parts of pulseaudio are removed now too. As soon as problem is resolved the desire is to have pipewire as it seems to be newer state of engineering as pulseaudio.
This way the session freeze-up trigger has now less chance to kick in. Indeed, it occurs now less frequently, anyhow I believe to have got it once since removal of xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

For further troubleshooting of user session total freeze-up I think to open new threat as there is no evidence the root cause is located in desktop environment as well as error occurrence last minute left in journal tracks of different system area. Follower topic is open.

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It appears to me like you are looking towards building your own ISO with a package set more suited at your preference.

It is fairly easy to do - and the community have worked out a couple of documents and videos explaining the process. The following is a short introduction with links to more viewing

There is two text files in the systemroot which is lists of packages provided by the ISO experience.

  • roofs-pkgs.txt (common to all ISO)
  • desktopfs-pkgs.txt (environment specific)

The topic on [root tip] [How To] Do a manual Manjaro installation describes a method to parse those files and install them to a base system - but the method can be appiled for other use cases as well - such as reworking a running installation.

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Thanks for input.
Actually it is a clone of virtual machine where user desire was to have Manjaro free of audio components. Hence as for clone source lot of audio packages were removed, if not all.
As far as it concerns this clone audio support is wanted, hence some set of audio packages were installed, first based on pulseaudio, at later point of time maybe some dirty mix pulse audio and pipewire; at current point of time clean switch to pipewire.
It can well be that packages juggling conducted in past was made in unfortunate and dirty way.
Similar may apply to desktop environment - however this side there is long-term desire to stay on XFCE, so if GNOME packages were installed these were rather user applications and their dependencies.
There exists no desire to build ISO image. Rather a tayloring of this or that Linux machine.

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Ok - my apologies for the misunderstanding.

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Good to know, thanks. Me found this entry in /desktopfs-pkgs.txt of this Manjaro station.

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Continuing the discussion from What is the clean Manjaro-XFCE stock set of packages forming graphical environment and to be present in distribution?:

When microphone is connected to host machine microphone user session becomes totally and irrecoverably freezed-up. Majority of session freeze-up error occurrences happen when user conducts some really unsophisticated handling with one of sound applications, e.g. simple recorder, or pulse mixer. There are infrequent occurrences out of sound use-case, however still only while host machine shares mic with this Manjaro guest - as of this minute it is hard to describe circumstances of occurrences of latter type. Not a single freeze-up error was observed when host machine doesn’t share mic with Manjaro on guest machine.

Below journal log for period of time corresponding with latest error occurrence. Eventually cut of log is too radical, let me know please. This is tail of logs that one boot and first minutes of user session. I believe user attempted to open pulse mixer as it happened. At that point of time manjaro-pipewire was installed. As of this minute there is no desire to remove pipewire.

How bad for user session which is expected to continue its operation is what log excerpt below presents?

Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 at-spi-bus-launcher[1247]: dbus-daemon[1247]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=969 pid=1236 comm="/usr/bin/lightdm-gtk-greeter")
Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 dbus-daemon[846]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.21' (uid=0 pid=1272 comm="lightdm --session-child 13 20")
Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 dbus-daemon[846]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 lightdm[1272]: pam_systemd_home(lightdm:auth): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 at-spi-bus-launcher[1247]: dbus-daemon[1247]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Jun 20 08:46:55 mach5 at-spi-bus-launcher[1274]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Jun 20 08:46:56 mach5 cups.cupsd[1280]: + /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:46:56 mach5 cups.cupsd[1281]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:46:56 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:46:57 mach5 cups.cupsd[1283]: + /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:46:57 mach5 cups.cupsd[1284]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:46:57 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:46:58 mach5 cups.cupsd[1286]: + /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:46:58 mach5 cups.cupsd[1287]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:46:58 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:46:59 mach5 cups.cupsd[1289]: + /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:46:59 mach5 cups.cupsd[1290]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:46:59 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:47:00 mach5 cups.cupsd[1293]: +
Jun 20 08:47:00 mach5 cups.cupsd[1292]: +
Jun 20 08:47:00 mach5 cups.cupsd[1293]: grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:47:00 mach5 cups.cupsd[1292]: /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:47:00 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:47:01 mach5 cups.cupsd[1295]: +
Jun 20 08:47:01 mach5 cups.cupsd[1296]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:47:01 mach5 cups.cupsd[1295]: /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:47:01 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:47:02 mach5 cups.cupsd[1298]: +
Jun 20 08:47:02 mach5 cups.cupsd[1299]: + grep -qv  not
Jun 20 08:47:02 mach5 cups.cupsd[1298]: /snap/cups/950/bin/lpstat -h /run/cups/cups.sock -r
Jun 20 08:47:02 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + sleep 1
Jun 20 08:47:02 mach5 systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 20 08:47:03 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + [ 0 = 1 ]
Jun 20 08:47:03 mach5 cups.cupsd[892]: + wait 1097
Jun 20 08:47:03 mach5 kernel: 06:47:03.524183 timesync vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: Radical guest time change: 7 211 851 419 000ns (GuestNow=1 687 243 623 524 138 000 ns GuestLast=1 687 236 411 672 719 000 ns fSetTimeLastLoop=true )
Jun 20 08:47:22 mach5 systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 20 08:47:24 mach5 systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 20 08:48:26 mach5 lightdm[1272]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 20 08:48:26 mach5 lightdm[1272]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Jun 20 08:48:26 mach5 systemd[1]: Stopping Session c1 of User lightdm...
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 lightdm[1221]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session closed for user lightdm
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: session-c1.scope: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: Stopped Session c1 of User lightdm.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 lightdm[1272]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user kkkk(uid=1000) by kkkk(uid=0)
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd-logind[850]: Removed session c1.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 1000.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000...
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd-logind[850]: New session 2 of user kkkk.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: Finished User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1000...
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 dbus-daemon[846]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.26' (uid=0 pid=1310 comm="(systemd)")
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 dbus-daemon[846]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 (systemd)[1310]: pam_systemd_home(systemd-user:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 (systemd)[1310]: pam_warn(systemd-user:setcred): function=[pam_sm_setcred] flags=0x8002 service=[systemd-user] terminal=[] user=[kkkk] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>]
Jun 20 08:48:27 mach5 (systemd)[1310]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user kkkk(uid=1000) by kkkk(uid=0)

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.114-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=faa32b82-f503-456b-a174-68decd0843af ro quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Oracle Corporation type: 1
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-4570 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4
    level: v2 built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60)
    stepping: 3 microcode: N/A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB
    desc: 2x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3193 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3193 2: 3193 bogomips: 12774
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.19.0.0 ports:
    active: Virtual-1 empty: Virtual-2, Virtual-3, Virtual-4, Virtual-5,
    Virtual-6, Virtual-7, Virtual-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 15ad:0405
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-2:3 chip-ID: 05ac:8511
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
    X: loaded: vmware unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: vmwgfx
    display-ID: :0.0 note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
  Monitor-1: Virtual-1 size-res: N/A modes: max: 0x0 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: SigmaTel
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 chip-ID: 8086:2668
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k5.15.114-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Network:
  Device-1: Red Hat Virtio network driver: virtio-pci v: 1 modules: virtio_pci
    port: 6020 bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 1af4:1000 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: -1 duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
    driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A modules: i2c_piix4 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.0
    chip-ID: 8086:7113 class-ID: 0680
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 95.79 GiB used: 403.67 GiB (421.4%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 31.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 60.03 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
    size: 4 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 59.53 GiB size: 58.42 GiB (98.13%) used: 22.01 GiB (37.7%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 31.76 GiB size: 31.15 GiB (98.08%)
    used: 6.29 GiB (20.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon or
    lm-sensors.
Info:
  Processes: 193 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 669 Memory: available: 7.61 GiB
  used: 1.99 GiB (26.2%) Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 Packages: 1005 pm: pacman pkgs: 978
  libs: 303 tools: pamac pm: snap pkgs: 27 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.27

UPDATE: Few minutes later one more test with same failure and again timesync vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: Radical guest time change. I think I need to face this direction.
UPDATE 2: Virtualization host keeps two following features enabled for this Manjaro station: KVM paravirtualization interface and nested paging hardware virtualization level. Former one shows in VirtualBox manual common points with failure log - time control. Administrator/user of Manjaro hesitates to disable it as hypervisor vendor recommends to use it. Nested paging disabled was in meantime tested out - no improvement.

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Among those settings of virtual machine found at hypervisor level it is para-virtualization which shows some relation (based on its description, VirtualBox manual) to error log found in journal. VirtualBox maker doesn’t recommend to disable para-virtualization, hence administrator hesitates to conduct turn-off.
Disablement of nested paging results on another side in no improvement - one test was done.

How may further troubleshooting look like?