Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 8/24/2019 9:53 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Not sure how any of this fits with Pierre's earlier observation about multiple users on the same machine, and frankly that part is not my problem. Now I really WILL step away from the machine. Goodnight, thanks for the assistance.

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 09:00:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 8/24/19 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > It's installed right at the end of my log after installing the header files. > > -- Bruce Yeah, I managed to boot a system from a couple of weeks ago, which had

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 01:33:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 8/24/2019 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be > > > > updating

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 02:46:19AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:05:41PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > As best I can tell, our configurations are the same. I do have both the > > elogind and mountcgroupfs bootscripts running at startup. The

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 8/24/19 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be updating further systems (nor reviewing if the kernel config for elogind is adequate, nor if the

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 8/24/2019 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be updating further systems (nor reviewing if the kernel config for elogind is adequate, nor if the

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:05:41PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > As best I can tell, our configurations are the same. I do have both the > elogind and mountcgroupfs bootscripts running at startup. The only thing > left that I can tell is that we may have used different build

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 8/24/2019 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be updating further systems (nor reviewing if the kernel config for elogind is adequate, nor if the

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 8/24/19 7:12 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:57:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/24/19 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > > At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be > > updating further systems (nor reviewing if the kernel config for > > elogind is adequate, nor if the mountcgroupfs and elogind > > bootscripts are really

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 8/24/2019 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some time to explain how authorisation via polkit (which I think is the intended route to gaining access to /dev/input/event*) is

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:57:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 8/24/19 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input > > group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some time to explain how > > authorisation via

Re: [blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 8/24/19 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some time to explain how authorisation via polkit (which I think is the intended route to gaining access to /dev/input/event*) is

Re: [blfs-dev] Xorg under blfs-9.0/elogind

2019-08-24 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 8/18/2019 12:05 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On 8/17/2019 8:53 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 08:40:23AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On August 16, 2019 4:36:41 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I ran into a bit of a problem when starting

[blfs-dev] elogind and polkit

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some time to explain how authorisation via polkit (which I think is the intended route to gaining access to /dev/input/event*) is supposed to work ? I've built polkit with the patch for

Re: [blfs-dev] ModemManager in sysv

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 09:27:43PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 8/23/19 8:31 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:49:15AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > With the book's current instructions, ModemManager (which appears to > > > now be

[blfs-dev] elogind : should I be in the input group ?

2019-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
I'm still totally failing to get elogind to allow me to use non-suid Xorg. I can see that elogind starts, e.g. after reinstating suid on Xorg this morning: Aug 24 07:00:50 plexi dbus-daemon[1224]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.login1' requested by ':1.0' (uid=0 pid=1418