From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:32:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373535173.2467.4@numa-i> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130711093104.1cc796e6@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (from neil@digimed.co.uk on Thu Jul 11 10:31:04 2013)
On 07/11/2013 10:31:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:36:29 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
> > Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling
> > StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1:
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to
> > execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
>
> I get this on my desktop but not my laptop, yet I have been unable to
> find the difference that accounts for it. In the end I gave up and
> made
> /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper world-executable :(
>
>
Thanks, that fixed it. It looks as if a process switches its UID to a
non-root UID.
Perhaps the ebuild should be fixed to install sys-apps/dbus with these
permissions.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-11 6:36 [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these? Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-11 8:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-11 9:32 ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2013-07-11 9:39 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-07-11 9:53 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-11 12:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-11 15:45 ` Stroller
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1373535173.2467.4@numa-i \
--to=jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox