I'm also seeing this on Artful, despite applying the "blacklist acpi_als" fix.
The messages are as follows: Sep 25 10:24:30 coyote org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop[1661]: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized Sep 25 10:24:30 coyote org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop[1661]: This incident has been reported. This is on an Thinkpad Yoga 14. I did a clean install of Zesty on it earlier this year, switched to the Gnome desktop after the install, and did a dist-upgrade to Artful last month. The problem has been pretty constant through the upgrades. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584457 Title: gsd-backlight-helper spamming the logs since upate to 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1584457/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs