-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 15:36 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > 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.
Actually, from a power savings perspective, this has substantial negative impact. Is there no way to disable this ? rrs@learner:~/rrs-home/Community/Packaging/multipath-tools (experimental)$ sudo execsnoop Tracing exec()s. Ctrl-C to end. Instrumenting sys_execve PID PPID ARGS 15289 15287 cat -v trace_pipe 15288 15284 gawk -v o=1 -v opt_name=0 -v name= -v opt_duration=0 [...] 15290 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15291 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15294 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15295 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15298 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15299 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15302 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15303 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15306 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15307 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15310 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15311 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15316 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15317 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15320 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15321 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15324 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15325 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15328 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15329 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15332 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15333 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15336 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15337 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15340 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15341 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15344 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15345 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15348 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15349 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15352 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15353 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15356 6366 Xorg-15356 [002] d... 26619.197560: execsnoop_sys_execve: (SyS_execve+0x0/0x40) 15357 15356 /usr/bin/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/share/X11/xkb -xkm - -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp [...] 15358 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15359 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 15362 6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max- brightness 15363 6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set- brightness 927 ^C Ending tracing... 2016-11-28 / 15:27:45 ♒♒♒ ☺ - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEQCVDstmIVAB/Yn02pjpYo/LhdWkFAlg8AC4ACgkQpjpYo/Lh dWlkDA/9G4BZmQ1uS171S0Q2G6o4XqzWQHuyMj/2Om3XMmu7nXIY1hsElI5cDG+2 fc5mTM1EPxBiUdPpCRs3UsA6GI1lx8R2XT1fDxz37BznzMIEubikPqlAQ0rQPah+ hVrKweXVfxRN/LE8EHcZUhM61di8LVm9s2Uyft9uk8x+KIioIeVyOQopA2jTrlR5 8fGjJ0eaJ4QwjcZciuORLl5mU/78RS4MBh90fz+BwJRpqoAlM+K05BrKwSc87ciZ v/6mr+ttHmu2uDkClAyCMGUppjZ9PErPyZhlyQn5LXUQPc2XkEwPOe93ohWIpBtw 1QN292H3kYMi1itL4balUSHfffu2sniHfzHFCLGMWUn7ly5KGoKQqFWISKLeyA+J VkPOhdoHFm58Xor+GB0QN4vxjzBSwNX7tLNaqjWP2Lf96sxl9comWot/dadC96aW WYwE0mh1DywQ4mGf6eEZtvGIZqCHo5gnsX4TyXh1gcAwLBhVFencDS2NU5D1Dp+U nY5mFy7RWX2THiZ9mnA+9lO43JHE1k8rnG25guuIahep2i+Xx7fcdVOCaIem6gNG OnL7IRbj4JBomEpA1Abj/4J1CLGHxaxC1tIznwM9r5SQ3sLhMnTIXw6pVY6K0nqY txnzMQJS0MA6kCkE84rXzr60TB8X0AwJtcJz5y/Bm6GCo70C2Yo= =v61Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----