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 B75C71381F3 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68650E09AD; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:39:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 660F8E084C for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.171.108.246] (85-76-14-107-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.14.107]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26CAC33E9DE for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51DE7D49.80809@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:39:21 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130707 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these? References: <1373524589.2467.2@numa-i> <20130711093104.1cc796e6@hactar. digimed.co.uk> <1373535173.2467.4@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1373535173.2467.4@numa-i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6ad4400a-431a-45d4-86ee-682ccf60a7e4 X-Archives-Hash: b8d385798fa8c343b1c44928c8b6c815 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