It is of course fair to say that my overheating system isn't a software bug.
However: 1. During the setup, the CPU governor was changed for whatever reason. It was not changed to my Powersafe default, nor to Ubuntu's OnDemand default, but to Performance. I concede I don't really know what did this or why, nor it really is a big problem in itself. I could've changed it back -- wasn't it for PolicyKit. 2. Attempts to fix this situtation were met with no or meaningless error messages, some coming for Policykit itself. I hope you will concede that "uid 0 is not authorized to modify defaults for implicit authorization for action org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults (requires org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults)" is a bit... strange error message. 3. PolicyKit denied Root to edit settings. In https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/0.7-2ubuntu4 it is noted that Root /is/ supposed to have full access to Policykit since Hardy. Change logs for following versions do not highlight changes in this behavior. I do believe PolicyKit did not behave as designed in this situation. I also believe that many applications need to be changed to recognise failures coming from PolicyKit policies. Feel free to extend this bug to the other involved packages, I could not find any. -- [Intrepid] Policykit denies changes to cpu frequency and ultimately leads to distro update failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
