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I first met it and wrote about it when +</I>>><i> trying to get wifi working. Now I'm trying to change shutdown +</I>>><i> option, and meet the same problem again. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> "Administrator authorisation is required to change the Login +</I>>><i> Manager settings" +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Do you have an I-take-everything cauldron or a pick-and-choose +</I>><i> cauldron ? Nobody ever seems to announce policy changes on this +</I>><i> ML, but I gather that the winds of favor have moved from +</I>><i> ConsoleKit to PolicyKit (or maybe it's the other way around), so +</I>><i> if, for example, ConsoleKit is now deprecated but you still have +</I>><i> packages installed that want it, you might be getting the errors +</I>><i> you mention below. +</I>><i> +</I>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. + +>><i> "Unable to authenticate/execute the action: DBus Backend error: +</I>>><i> could not contact the helper. Connection error: The name +</I>>><i> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service +</I>>><i> files. Message error: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes +</I>>><i> include: the remote application did not send a reply, the +</I>>><i> message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout +</I>>><i> expired, or the network connection was broken (code 7)" +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Caulron was behaving so well until a couple of weeks or so ago. +</I>>><i> It's driving me mad at the moment. Is there any way out of this +</I>>><i> mess? and also, asked in another thread, any way to stop it +</I>>><i> locking my screen if I look away for a couple of minutes. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This was covered extensively in another thread. KDE Power +</I>><i> Management is AFU at the moment. If you have set PM to not turn +</I>><i> off the display no mattter what, it rolls the dice and chooses +</I>><i> some random value for dpms, which determines when the screen +</I>><i> blanks (thanks, Colin). There's an open KDE bug for it. +</I>><i> +</I>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 :-) + +><i> At present, about all you can do to stay sane is put "xset -dpms" +</I>><i> in your rc.local and also at the tail end of whatever scripts you +</I>><i> use for "urpmi --auto-update" (as any update to KDE PM will +</I>><i> probably undo the -dpms). +</I>><i> +</I>Thanks. That's worth knowing about. + +Anne +- -- +Need KDE help? 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