*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 615047 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615047
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 615047
[Maverick Alpha] asks for root permission to do:
gnome-power-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness
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Authentication is needed to run
This appears to have been fixed in package: gnome-power-manager
2.31.90-0ubuntu4 which was released today.
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Authentication is needed to run '/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper' as the
super user when using Reduce backlight brightness or Dim display when idle
options.
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Authentication is needed to run '/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper' as the
super user when using Reduce backlight brightness or Dim display when idle
options.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623000
You received
** Summary changed:
- Authentication is needed to run '/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper' as
the super user when using battery and Reduce backlight brightness option.
+ Authentication is needed to run '/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper' as
the super user when using Reduce backlight
This only started happening with gnome-power-manager 2.31.90-0ubuntu3
released today. The previous version didn't have this happen. The bug
fix for [Bug 614039] Re: gnome-power-manager crashed with signal 5 in
_XError() seems to have caused this possibly. gnome-power-manager
stopped crashing but
