From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
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 12:39:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DE7D49.80809@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373535173.2467.4@numa-i>
On 11/07/13 12:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 10:31:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:36:29 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>> > Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling
>> > StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1:
>> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to
>> > execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
>>
>> 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 :(
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, that fixed it. It looks as if a process switches its UID to a
> non-root UID.
> Perhaps the ebuild should be fixed to install sys-apps/dbus with these
> permissions.
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'
So... Instead, the problem is often solved by simple re-emerge:
# emerge -1 glib dbus dbus-glib
Often caused by glib's upgrade (or downgrade) or dbus's upgrade (or
downgrade) where dbus-glib hasn't been rebuilt with it
- Samuli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 9:39 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 [this message]
2013-07-11 9:53 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-11 12:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-11 15:45 ` Stroller
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