From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:29:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115142951.53798c26@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21059382.V6ktsh2tMk@wstn>
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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.
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 38: Government organization
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 11:21 [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed Helmut Jarausch
2014-01-15 11:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-15 11:54 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-01-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-16 10:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-16 10:45 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-01-15 14:17 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-15 14:29 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-01-15 16:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-16 0:12 ` Walter Dnes
2014-01-16 0:31 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-16 1:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-16 0:32 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2014-01-16 9:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-16 16:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-01-16 17:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-17 4:56 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-01-17 11:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-17 13:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-18 23:45 ` Mick
2014-01-19 21:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-20 16:30 ` Samuli Suominen
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