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renegat

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From: Europe

Registered: 2012-12-28

Posts: 100

gsmartcontrol polkit problem: Not asking for password anymore [solved]

polkit 0.112-2
polkit-gnome 0.105-2
gsmartcontrol 0.8.7-4

DE: LXDE

When trying to use gsmartcontrol as normal user it does not ask for permission anymore but starts and the drives are shown as 'unknown model' now.
The polkit-gnome-authentication is autostarted at boot and works fine with gparted e.g.
But with gsmartcontrol I get:

polkitd[356]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted for unix-process:1126:101937 [/bin/bash /usr/bin/gparted_polkit] (owned by unix-user:user)

How can I get gsmartcontrol working again as normal user?

SOLUTION:
Use '/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol_polkit' instead of (de)fault '/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol' in your starter.

Last edited by renegat (2014-11-28 15:44:38)