[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

[Anne Wilson]

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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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