From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805481381F3 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A13CDE095D; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de (mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.5.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DB9E08C0 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:32:52 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,1043,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="229728557" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; 11 Jul 2013 11:32:52 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r6B9Wp6M014445 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B482AB for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:32:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:32:53 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1373524589.2467.2@numa-i> <20130711093104.1cc796e6@hactar. digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130711093104.1cc796e6@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (from neil@digimed.co.uk on Thu Jul 11 10:31:04 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.5.1-31-g1fd677d Message-Id: <1373535173.2467.4@numa-i> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6c4ad173-ca77-4dab-b365-35fdfcd974a0 X-Archives-Hash: 0417db4d39f3d7cac112b60c464e359d On 07/11/2013 10:31:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:36:29 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >=20 > > 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 >=20 > 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 =20 > made > /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper world-executable :( >=20 >=20 Thanks, that fixed it. It looks as if a process switches its UID to a =20 non-root UID. Perhaps the ebuild should be fixed to install sys-apps/dbus with these =20 permissions. Helmut =