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 16B11138247 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A3DDE0B4C; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AE7E0B3B for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W3RHS-000FC9-NY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:18 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:18 +0000 Message-ID: <21059382.V6ktsh2tMk@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.11.2 (Linux/3.10.25-gentoo; KDE/4.11.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140115113744.2d176ced@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <1389784897.14951.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <20140115113744.2d176ced@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 23eb151e-3b6b-4783-bbb7-0c553ecb3916 X-Archives-Hash: f74791a1394587579015bd9b5c323ed6 On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 11:37:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > The log contains many message like > > > > dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed: > > Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: > > Success > > 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? -- Regards Peter