Suspend is required root privileges

Hello,

I’m using OpenSUSE 12.1 on my laptop and it is working fine so far, however last night it started asking me for root privileges when I try to suspend from gnome menu (User -> Suspend), which is very disturbing because, now after I close the lid, I have to open it again to enter the root password. Well last night I did not see the root prompt, I closed the lid, removed the charger and left, woke up to find the PC off, with an empty battery.

I did two things yesterday (unless I did something else and forgot about it :slight_smile: )

  • Updated the system (currently using the latest official updates)
  • Tried using Paranoid
    permissions but it did not work well so I reverted back to Easy

There’s no errors in /var/log/pm-suspend.log file,actually there’s nothing new in that file which means that pm-suspend hasn’t been invoked at all, explained by the this error message in ~/.xsession-errors


(gnome-shell:31823): libupower-glib-DEBUG: DBUS timed out, but recovering
      JS LOG: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed
      JS LOG: polkitAuthenticationAgent: Failed to show modal dialog. Dismissing authentication request for action-id org.freedesktop.upower.suspend cookie cookie5

The entire .xsession-errors is here.

Any leads?

Thanks

On 2011-10-30 13:36, eMxyzptlk wrote:

> I did two things yesterday (unless I did something else and forgot
> about it :slight_smile: )
>
> - Updated the system (currently using the latest official updates)

From the update repo only?

> - Tried using Paranoid permissions but it did not work well so I
> reverted back to Easy

It looks to me as if some paranoid setting is still on.


Cheers / Saludos,

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

As 12.1 is still not released, you better report problems in the Pre-Release/Beta subforum!

I have the packman repository enabled but I did not update packages using it, only the update repo was used

Do you have any idea which setting it is ? I scanned through the /etc/permissions.paranoid file but I couldn’t see anything that could break the system

Would you mind moving this topic to the Pre-Release/Beta subforum then? I don’t like double posting an issue.

I should also add that the same happens now when I connect or disconnect an external monitor, it asks for a password to add/remove a color managed device.

On 2011-10-30 15:36, eMxyzptlk wrote:
> Do you have any idea which setting it is ? I scanned through the
> /etc/permissions.paranoid file but I couldn’t see anything that could
> break the system

Nope, no idea. But I do know that paranoid mode does break the system with
symptoms like yours and worse. IMO some setting in the paranoid mode was
not reverted.


Cheers / Saludos,

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

Please do not post here until this thread is moved!.

Moved and open for posting.