-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Henderson wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:29:23 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

...

You're most likely hitting https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476158

In openSUSE 11.1, gnome was patched to read the desktop file and recognize that elevated rights are needed. I assume that already in 11.1 this got lost (the report was against openSUSE 11.2, Factory, but it might have happened earlier).

Also, if you updated your openSUSE 11.1 to GNOME 2.26, then I assume you're very likely to have exactly this bug.

Great, thanks for the information on this - I'd been trying to find this off and on for a couple of weeks and just was having no luck. I'm still on 2.24 here, but it sounds like it's a known issue so I won't worry about it.

Jim

Might be worth checking /etc/permissions.local. Had similar problems with a new install which suddenly started not running applications requiring root access from GNOME (particularly Yast)....a bit of googling found workaround below... add /usr/lib/libgnomesu/gnomesu-pam-backend root:root 4755 to the /etc/permissions.local file. Which seems to have fixed issue for me, (at some point I will figure out why and whether this is a good idea)... what is of more interest in this is what got borked and what did it ... but I am working on other stuff at moment and if it recurs I will take a closer look.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpyxMkACgkQasN0sSnLmgKXOwCg5MDkqLiF+zRf+sQ/q/Xlgy5/ 6YQAoNORtOGA5gWbVrenDghEoZfxzdwM =a4kK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Henderson wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:17:45 +0100, G T Smith wrote:

...

Might be worth checking /etc/permissions.local. Had similar problems with a new install which suddenly started not running applications requiring root access from GNOME (particularly Yast)....a bit of googling found workaround below...

add

/usr/lib/libgnomesu/gnomesu-pam-backend root:root 4755

to the /etc/permissions.local file.

Which seems to have fixed issue for me, (at some point I will figure out why and whether this is a good idea)... what is of more interest in this is what got borked and what did it ... but I am working on other stuff at moment and if it recurs I will take a closer look....

Thanks for this, will give it a try - did you have to log out and back in for the change to take effect?

Jim

I cannot remember to be honest, a lot of other issues were being worked on at time and I applied this because the problem was a bit of nuisance and slowing fixing the various other (more serious) things. Murphy has been working overtime here :-) - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkp1d9YACgkQasN0sSnLmgKDPACfajpyWIvlat8zogOQiZ6ZI7XJ 7VIAoIKqCNQVwTMEdYy9x+VGB8CfZjtf =hLAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:32:35 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

No problem, I know the feeling. It doesn't seem to have taken effect, so I'll take some time today and reauthenticate and see if that resolves it. :-)

Jim

Hmm, restarting GNOME doesn't seem to have addressed this for me. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org