Password Dialogs coming up randomly

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#1

I’m having three password dialogues coming up at completely random times. The openSUSE installation is new, less than a week old, as is the laptop. The dialogues are an XMarks login, one that says:

Authorization is required to refresh the system resources.

The third says that System policies prevent me from changing the screen brightness.

These come up completely randomly, sometimes when I’m using the computer, sometimes one is there when I come back to the laptop after a bit of a break.

I don’t know whether this has anything to do with it, but dmesg | tail shows a segfault on the last line:

 1128.965497] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c245
 1128.965511] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 1128.965521] usb 3-2: Product: Gaming Mouse G400
 1128.965528] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Logitech
 1128.974405] input: Logitech Gaming Mouse G400 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input11
 1128.974941] generic-usb 0003:046D:C245.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Gaming Mouse G400] on usb-0000:00:12.0-2/input0
 1128.983073] generic-usb 0003:046D:C245.0002: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [Logitech Gaming Mouse G400] on usb-0000:00:12.0-2/input1
 1135.579154] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: acl,user_xattr,commit=0
 1135.819146] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: acl,user_xattr,commit=0
 1186.497830] packagekitd[4510]: segfault at 7f84f85d7008 ip 00007f850c3e87a9 sp 00007f84ff7fc728 error 4 in libc-2.14.1.so[7f850c2c5000+187000]

The “refresh system resources” dialogue came up twice while I was typing this post. I give it my password each time. I can’t find anything definitive in /var/log/messages, though I can see the instances where it asked about the screen brightness and I refused the password, because I haven’t had any need to adjust the screen brightness. Where else might I look for clues to help solve this?

#2

On 2012-03-18 18:06, rogue mouser wrote:

> one that says:
>
> Authorization is required to refresh the system resources.
>
> The third says that System policies prevent me from changing the screen
> brightness.

maybe something is trying to change the brightness depending on the battery
state. It would be normal, but not to get the password prompt.

> I don’t know whether this has anything to do with it, but dmesg | tail
> shows a segfault on the last line:

That’s packagekit, related to the “refresh system resources” messages
above. You may have to remove that part of the software, but first make
sure your system is fully patched (use yast online updater).

(package kit doesn’t get a good fame on these parts, many uninstall it; but
it has had several updates)

You could say what you are using, gnome, kde, or something else. I suppose
you are using 12.1.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#3

Sorry about that. I forget that bit sometimes. I’m using the 12.1 KDE spin. I’ll try the packagekit uninstall and see if that helps. Thanks!