[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Sat Nov 24 14:33:16 CET 2012

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"
+
+That implies root password, to me, but "Authentication failure, please
+try again".
+
+After that a new box pops up -
+
+"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)"
+
+Whatever is blocking these changes is a right royal PITA.  If you are
+tempted to shut off security measures by such setting, it is asking
+for trouble.
+
+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?
+
+Anne
+