Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 604625
Authentication is needed to run gnome-power-backlight-helper as the superuser
Last modified: 2010-08-31 08:53:38 EDT
Description of problem: As soon as GDM starts the first thing to pop up is an authentication dialog that asks for the root password to be able to run gnome-power-backlight-helper as the superuser. Then it asks for it again as soon as you have logged in as a regular user on the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.31.1-1.fc14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot wait until GDM 2. Log in as regular user 3. Actual results: Being ask for the superuser password to allow gnome-backlight-helper to be run Expected results: No authentication dialogues asking me for anything other than my password for the user I want to log in as. Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This turns out to be a build error - gnome-power-manager-2.31.6.tar.gz ships with a prebuilt policy/org.gnome.power.policy file, which incorrectly lists the path of gnome-power-backlight-helper: <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/home/hughsie/.root/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper</annotate> As a workaround, edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.power.policy and change that path to '/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper'. The minimal build fix is probably to add: rm -f policy/org.gnome.power.policy to the specfile's %prep section. (except I can't confirm that 'cuz g-p-m doesn't build right now, boo)
Build failure is bug 625206 - there's a patch that fixes it there. I can now confirm that the minimal build fix in comment #2 works as expected.
gnome-power-manager-2.31.90-3.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-power-manager-2.31.90-3.fc14
gnome-power-manager-2.31.90-3.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Committed upstream: commit 51ff5159c7dd1c4e8ac0b7423b8f468f3adb1d47 Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Tue Aug 31 13:53:11 2010 +0100 Do not dist org.gnome.power.policy in the tarball