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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Sun Nov 25 13:05:34 CET 2012</I>
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On 24/11/12 20:05, Frank Griffin wrote:
><i> On 11/24/2012 08:20 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> In Cauldron, I'm once again struggling with the inability to make
</I>>><i> configuration changes. 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
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