Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 14:29:51 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:18 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to
> > > find out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just
> > > "chmod +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper" and it goes away,
> > > until the next update.
> > 
> > That's interesting. Now that I look at mine, which doesn't throw those
> > errors, I find some unusual permissions:
> > 
> > $ ls -l /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> > -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 316K Dec  1 17:59 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-
> > launch-helper
> > 
> > Is this the same as what doesn't work for you?
> 
> It is the same as on both the working laptop and non-working desktop?
> Those are the permissions set by the dbus install, but one computer
> objects to it. The desktop user is a member of every group that the
> laptop user belongs to.
>
> Yes, I know that's bad grammar and a preposition is something you should
> never end a sentence with.

You pinched my line! I often say that a preposition is a perfectly good word 
to end a sentence with.

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Yours,
Bemused of Tideswell