[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Sat Nov 24 21:05:05 CET 2012

On 11/24/2012 08:20 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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+> 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.
+
+> "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.
+
+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).
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