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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:27
Message-Id: 21059382.V6ktsh2tMk@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 11:37:44 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 > > The log contains many message like
4 > >
5 > > dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed:
6 > > Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper:
7 > > Success
8 >
9 > I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to find
10 > out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just "chmod
11 > +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper" and it goes away, until the
12 > next update.
13
14 That's interesting. Now that I look at mine, which doesn't throw those errors,
15 I find some unusual permissions:
16
17 $ ls -l /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
18 -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 316K Dec 1 17:59 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-
19 launch-helper
20
21 Is this the same as what doesn't work for you?
22
23 --
24 Regards
25 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>