Bug 743831

So far the config editor is very confusing and I see little evidence that anything I do there is having any effect.  
I think I've at least managed to disable suspend.

However I see a lot of this in /var/log/messages:
Oct  6 12:32:02 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:   0x1e69a40
Oct  6 12:32:02 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (local=1 active=1)
Oct  6 12:32:02 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  is authorized (has implicit authorization local=1 active=1)
Oct  6 12:32:02 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.237 is inquiring whether unix-process:2856:14566 is authorized for org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.backlight-helper
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  user of caller is unix-user:root
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  user of subject is unix-user:don
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG: checking whether unix-process:2856:14566 is authorized for org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.backlight-helper
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:   0x1e42e10
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (local=1 active=1)
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  is authorized (has implicit authorization local=1 active=1)
Oct  6 12:33:01 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.239 is inquiring whether unix-process:2856:14566 is authorized for org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.backlight-helper
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  user of caller is unix-user:root
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  user of subject is unix-user:don
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG: checking whether unix-process:2856:14566 is authorized for org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.backlight-helper
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:   0x1e42ea0
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (local=1 active=1)
Oct  6 12:33:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1098]: ** (polkitd:1149): DEBUG:  is authorized (has implicit authorization local=1 active=1)

If this is just debug info, how can I turn it off?
I'm trying to use the logs to figure out all sorts of other problems.

As long as I'm complaining about junk in logs, /var/log/secure contains almost entirely this:
Oct 10 10:35:28 number11 pkexec: pam_systemd(polkit-1:session): Failed to create session: Invalid argument
Oct 10 10:35:28 number11 pkexec: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=500)
Oct 10 10:35:28 number11 pkexec[4263]: don: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/don] [COMMAND=/usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 100]

What does that mean and why is it in the log?  I see > 1000 lines of that and 18 lines other than that.

I've now reinstalled 16 from scratch, suspend now shows me some output on the screen:
    Booting 'Fedora (3.1.4-1.fc16.x86_64)'
   
   Loading Fedora (3.1.4-1.fc16.x86_64)
   Loading initial ramdisk ...
   [    2.022355] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00:0: Register 0x00004030 not found in PLL
   limits table

BTW I also see in /var/log/messages loads of this:

Dec  8 01:36:44 number11 dbus-daemon[1084]: ** (upowerd:1376): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg
Dec  8 01:36:44 number11 dbus-daemon[1084]: ** (upowerd:1376): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg
Dec  8 01:37:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1084]: ** (upowerd:1376): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg
Dec  8 01:37:14 number11 dbus-daemon[1084]: ** (upowerd:1376): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg

(I don't suppose the two are related, are they?)
Any ideas ?

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