[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Sun Nov 25 13:05:34 CET 2012

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+On 24/11/12 20:05, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 11/24/2012 08:20 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+>>> 
+>> In Cauldron, I'm once again struggling with the inability to make
+>> configuration changes.  I first met it and wrote about it when
+>> trying to get wifi working.  Now I'm trying to change shutdown
+>> option, and meet the same problem again.
+>> 
+>> "Administrator authorisation is required to change the Login 
+>> Manager settings"
+> 
+> Do you have an I-take-everything cauldron or a pick-and-choose 
+> cauldron ?  Nobody ever seems to announce policy changes on this 
+> ML, but I gather that the winds of favor have moved from
+> ConsoleKit to PolicyKit (or maybe it's the other way around), so
+> if, for example, ConsoleKit is now deprecated but you still have
+> packages installed that want it, you might be getting the errors
+> you mention below.
+> 
+I have a fairly standard setup with the usual sort of apps, most of my
+time being in using Dolphin, Chrome, Thunderbird with dips into
+various other apps.  I update by using 'urpmi --auto-update'.  These
+problems seem to have arrived very recently.
+
+>> "Unable to authenticate/execute the action: DBus Backend error: 
+>> could not contact the helper.  Connection error: The name 
+>> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service 
+>> files. Message error: Did not receive a reply.  Possible causes 
+>> include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
+>> message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
+>> expired, or the network connection was broken (code 7)"
+>> 
+> 
+>> Caulron was behaving so well until a couple of weeks or so ago. 
+>> It's driving me mad at the moment.  Is there any way out of this 
+>> mess?  and also, asked in another thread, any way to stop it 
+>> locking my screen if I look away for a couple of minutes.
+> 
+> This was covered extensively in another thread.  KDE Power 
+> Management is AFU at the moment.  If you have set PM to not turn 
+> off the display no mattter what, it rolls the dice and chooses
+> some random value for dpms, which determines when the screen
+> blanks (thanks, Colin).  There's an open KDE bug for it.
+> 
+Ah - it's power management settings, then.  OK, I'll look at that.  I
+have been used to the screen blanking after quite a short time, but
+this insistence on a password is new behaviour.  I don't think it's a
+good idea for things to change dramatically without any sort of
+warning.  When the behaviour is the result of some other deep change
+it is hard to understand :-)
+
+> At present, about all you can do to stay sane is put "xset -dpms" 
+> in your rc.local and also at the tail end of whatever scripts you 
+> use for "urpmi --auto-update" (as any update to KDE PM will 
+> probably undo the -dpms).
+> 
+Thanks.  That's worth knowing about.
+
+Anne
+- -- 
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