[gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, (too) often I get dbus errors, especial when running an application as root e.g. Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/11/2013 11:39:21 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:39:21 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: 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 :( Making it world executable is

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus problems - am I the only one who has these?

2013-07-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 July 2013, at 13:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... So... Instead, the problem is often solved by simple re-emerge: # emerge -1 glib dbus dbus-glib Often, maybe - always, definitely not. This machine has suffered from that issue for some time and none of the suggested solutions,