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On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 14:29:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:18 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to |
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> > > find out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just |
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> > > "chmod +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper" and it goes away, |
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> > > until the next update. |
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> > That's interesting. Now that I look at mine, which doesn't throw those |
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> > errors, I find some unusual permissions: |
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> > |
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> > $ ls -l /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper |
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> > -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 316K Dec 1 17:59 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon- |
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> > launch-helper |
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> > |
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> > Is this the same as what doesn't work for you? |
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> It is the same as on both the working laptop and non-working desktop? |
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> Those are the permissions set by the dbus install, but one computer |
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> objects to it. The desktop user is a member of every group that the |
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> laptop user belongs to. |
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> Yes, I know that's bad grammar and a preposition is something you should |
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> never end a sentence with. |
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You pinched my line! I often say that a preposition is a perfectly good word |
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to end a sentence with. |
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Yours, |
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Bemused of Tideswell |
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