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and subject line closing old gnome-settings-daemon bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #839912,
regarding gnome-settings-daemon: failed cmd exectuion on gdm display
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839912: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839912
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Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.22.0-1
Severity: normal
I don't know why it'd want to run a command, as user root, expecially
when I have my desktop session active. There are no visible side effects
to this failed attempt, but this does not look correct.
Oct 06 15:31:04 learner pkexec[28492]: rrs: Executing command [USER=root]
[TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/rrs]
[COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness
862]
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Allocate new frame buffer 1920x1080 stride
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner calibre-gui.desktop[9160]: QXcbConnection: XCB error:
148 (Unknown), sequence: 34041, resource id: 0, major code: 140 (Unknown),
minor code: 20
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner org.kde.digikam.desktop[9193]: QXcbConnection: XCB
error: 148 (Unknown), sequence: 44599, resource id: 0, major code: 140
(Unknown), minor code: 20
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 8237
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1088 1102 1110
-hsync -vsync (66.6 kHz eP)
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2440 1080 1088 1102 1182
-hsync -vsync (56.8 kHz e)
Oct 06 15:31:05 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 8237
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1088 1102 1110
-hsync -vsync (66.6 kHz eP)
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2440 1080 1088 1102 1182
-hsync -vsync (56.8 kHz e)
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 8237
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1088 1102 1110
-hsync -vsync (66.6 kHz eP)
Oct 06 15:31:06 learner /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[7277]: (II) modeset(0):
Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.53 1920 1968 2000 2440 1080 1088 1102 1182
-hsync -vsync (56.8 kHz e)
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner pkexec[28514]: Debian-gdm: Error executing command as
another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/var/lib/gdm3]
[COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness
927]
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner gnome-settings-daemon.desktop[7083]: Error executing
command as another user: Not authorized
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner gnome-settings-daemon.desktop[7083]: This incident has
been reported.
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner pkexec[28515]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session
opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner pkexec[28515]: pam_systemd(polkit-1:session): Cannot
create session: Already running in a session
Oct 06 15:31:13 learner pkexec[28515]: rrs: Executing command [USER=root]
[TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/rrs]
[COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness
890]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500,
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0brk0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1
ii libasound2 1.1.2-1
ii libc6 2.24-3
ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3
ii libcanberra0 0.30-3
ii libcolord2 1.3.3-2
ii libcups2 2.2.0-2
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.0-1
ii libgeoclue-2-0 2.4.3-1
ii libgeocode-glib0 3.20.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.0-2
ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.22.0-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3
ii libgweather-3-6 3.20.3-1
ii liblcms2-2 2.7-1
ii libnm0 1.4.2-1
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6
ii libnss3 2:3.26-2
ii libpam-systemd 231-9
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-16
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 9.0-3
ii libpulse0 9.0-3
ii librsvg2-2 2.40.16-1
ii libupower-glib3 0.99.4-4
ii libwacom2 0.22-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.11.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.6-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii nautilus-data 3.22.0-1
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii iio-sensor-proxy 1.3-1
ii pulseaudio 9.0-3
gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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