Changing brightness request root (super user) permission

[Guillermo Gonzalez]

After today upgrade, any time the brightness change, by manual action or by the power settings to dim the screen on battery I get a popup to authorize gsd-backlight-helper to run as superuser, looking at the ps output I see:

pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 15

Let me know if there is any extra info I can provide.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic-pae 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 12 17:14:49 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111130.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

A workaround is to downgrade gnome-settings-daemon to version 3.2.2-0ubuntu7

[Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok)]

thanks!
will do the downgrade until it's fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 3.2.2-0ubuntu9

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gnome-settings-daemon (3.2.2-0ubuntu9) precise; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with fixed pkgbinarymangler (lp: #913085),
    that should fix broke permissions errors (lp: #915600)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:44:32 +0100

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

I've installed the latest version of gnome-settings-daemon and it's still requires super user privileges.

$ apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installed: 3.2.2-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 3.2.2-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.2-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

Confirmed, this issue still not solved.

[Paul Dooley (pilotpaul)]

Also confirmed here - fix installed...no fix.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Only one of the double quotes seems to have been removed in the polkit action , currently
<description gettext-domain="gnome-settings-daemon"">
<message gettext-domain="gnome-settings-daemon"">

[jokrebel (jokrebel)]

apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installiert: 3.2.2-0ubuntu9
  Kandidat: 3.2.2-0ubuntu9
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.2.2-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Sorry - Bugs seem not to be fixed. Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity) still asks the password.

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

This bug is fixed in gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-0ubuntu10

$ apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installed: 3.2.2-0ubuntu10
  Candidate: 3.2.2-0ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.2-0ubuntu10 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.2.2-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

Thanks!

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Confirm fixed with 3.2.2-0ubuntu10

[Paul Dooley (pilotpaul)]

Fixed - quick work!

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Nice work; thanks

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

Confirm that fixed with 3.2.2-0ubuntu10, thanks!