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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:46:03
Message-Id: 1389869158.3913.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed by Neil Bothwick
1 On 01/16/2014 11:36:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:37:39 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > > > The solution is to recompile pkgs like dev-libs/dbus-glib after
5 > > > dev-libs/glib upgrade (as noted by elog in the end of glib emerge)
6 > > > Propably 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' will do the
7 > > > trick if nothing else does
8 > >
9 > > I tried all that and it made no difference. Bear in mind this
10 > machine
11 > > has been affected like this for more than two years, there is
12 > nothing
13 > > that has not been re-emerged in that time yet the issue persists.
14 >
15 > For the hell of it, I ran 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib'
16 > again. six hours and a reboot later and nothing has changed :(
17
18 Many thanks, you did it for me - I was afraid of that outcome
19 Helmut
20
21
22 On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:21:37 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
23 The log contains many message like
24
25 dbus[1366]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.login1' failed:
26 Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper:
27 Success
28
29 console-kit-daemon[1387]: CRITICAL:
30 polkit_authority_check_authorization:
31 assertion 'POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY (authority)' failed
32
33 I have re-emerged sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib
34 sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent
35 as recommended elsewhere but it didn't help.
36
37 On 01/15/2014 12:37:44 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
38 I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to
39 find
40 > out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just "chmod
41 > +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper" and it goes away, until the
42 > next update.
43
44 On Jul 02, 2012, Samuel Suominen wrote
45
46 Never do that, unless you want everyone on your system to be allowed to
47 gain root. As in, that is same as intentionally inserting a
48 vulnerability to your own machine.
49
50 The solution is to recompile pkgs like dev-libs/dbus-glib after
51 dev-libs/glib upgrade (as noted by elog in the end of glib emerge)
52 Propably 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' will do the trick
53 if nothing else does