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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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 13:27:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130711132736.2544c7a5@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DE7D49.80809@gentoo.org>

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:39:21 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:

> >> 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 :(

> Making it world executable is same as giving root to every user on your 
> system -- as it makes it possible to escalate to user 'root' or at
> least group 'messagebus'

I realise that, but I was unable to find a proper fix.

> So... Instead, the problem is often solved by simple re-emerge:
> 
> # emerge -1 glib dbus dbus-glib

Often, maybe - always, definitely not. This machine has suffered from
that issue for some time and none of the suggested solutions, including
that one, or a few more desperate measures, have made any difference.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-11 12:27 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
2013-07-11  9:39     ` Samuli Suominen
2013-07-11  9:53       ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-11 12:27       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-07-11 15:45         ` Stroller

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