Bug 1510181

Summary: GNOME Settings Daemon fails to run gsd-backlight-helper.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ryan Farmer <rfarmer84>
Component: gnome-settings-daemonAssignee: Rui Matos <tiagomatos>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 27CC: fmuellner, gnome-sig, klember, mkasik, ofourdan, rmatos, rstrode, tiagomatos
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Description Ryan Farmer 2017-11-06 21:15:37 UTC
Description of problem:

In GNOME 3.26.2, I get the following errors in my system log repeatedly.

Sender gsd-power

Message Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

Priority 4

This incident has been reported.

Sender pkexec

Message gdm: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/var/lib/gdm] [COMMAND=/usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 384]

Priority 4

Comment 1 Rui Matos 2017-11-15 17:50:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1322588 ***