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josephk

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Registered: 2011-01-09

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[solved] Gnome3 System Settings: can't unlock

when clicking on a unlock button, nothing happens but the message

(gnome-control-center:1965): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring permission: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

??? thanks

Last edited by josephk (2011-11-21 16:39:43)

addy

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: [solved] Gnome3 System Settings: can't unlock

Are you a SUDOer? You will need the root password to unlock the settings.

Make sure dbus is installed and started.
pacman -S dbus
rc.d start dbus

Last edited by addy (2011-11-20 07:24:12)

josephk

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Re: [solved] Gnome3 System Settings: can't unlock

hi addy and thanks,
yes, I use sudo and I've also disabled root account and all securetty terminals.
following the SUDO wiki, it should work ok, but unfortunately that's not the case.
thought policykit was smart enough to handle it. I'll enable root again.
not a dbus problem, anyway it's the only real issue I have on arch: good.

EDIT: I've enabled again ROOT, but nothing changes.
I think it's policykit related problem, must fix it, can't add printer like this.

EDIT: fixed had to add [Configuration] string at the top of /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/60-localauthority.conf

Last edited by josephk (2011-11-21 16:39:07)