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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



  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

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