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

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:54:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch 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.  
> 
> Many thanks Neil!
> 
> On Jul 02, 2012,  Samuel Suominen wrote
> 
> Never do that, unless you want everyone on your system to be allowed
> to gain root. As in, that is same as intentionally inserting a  
> vulnerability to your own machine.
> 
> The solution is to recompile pkgs like dev-libs/dbus-glib after  
> dev-libs/glib upgrade (as noted by elog in the end of glib emerge)
> Propably 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' will do the
> trick if nothing else does

I tried all that and it made no difference. Bear in mind this machine has
been affected like this for more than two years, there is nothing that
has not been re-emerged in that time yet the issue persists.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Too many clicks spoil the browse.

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