upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10 64-bit desktop. ASUS Transformer T300 CHI- FL005H. kernel 4.13.0-32-generic and gnome-settings-daemon 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
syslog and journalctl spammed exactly as described - gdm3 and gsd- backlight-helper --set-brightness I can confirm "systemctl stop iio-sensor-proxy" causes these messages to stop, but less frequent errors from org.gnome.Shell.desktop are logged repeatedly, e.g. Error.checkin_request.cc(211) failed to get checking response. Fetcher failed. Retrying. Followed by various other org.gnome.Shell.desktop messages. I can provide a log if they might be useful, but I suspect they are triggered by killing the iio-sensor-proxy and so are probably not very relevant to the original bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584457 Title: gsd-backlight-helper spamming the logs since upate to 16.04 Status in GNOME Settings Daemon: Fix Released Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Xenial: Confirmed Bug description: Since updating to 16.04 from 14.04, I have the syslog spammed by: SEC: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano pkexec[21248]: 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 1766] SEC: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano pkexec: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1153) SEC: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano pkexec: pam_systemd(polkit-1:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session SEC: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano pkexec: pam_ck_connector(polkit-1:session): cannot determine display-device SEC: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano pkexec[21249]: romano: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/romano] [COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 4322] SYS: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano gnome-session[1454]: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized SYS: May 22 13:26:43 samsung-romano gnome-session[1454]: This incident has been reported. every couple of seconds or so. There is no really need to change brightness... how can I stop it? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1584457/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
