[kde-linux] Authorization issues. Was: Time Zone settings etc.

[James Tyrer]

Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 23:16:17 you wrote:
> 
>> If this works, you should then be able to go to: "SystemSettings ->
>> Advanced -> PolicyKit Authorization" and give yourself the necessary
>> authority.
>>
> 
> Hallo James, Hallo Duncan,
> 
> I was working all these days on the authorization issue. No way. I got DBus, 
> DBus-Glib, HAL,HAL-Info, PolicyKit, EggDBus, polkit, ConsoleKit, polkit-qt and 
> polkit-qt-1 build. But no  PolicyKit Authorization shows up in my 
> SystemsSettings. 

I don't have any for KDE either. :-(  It appears to be seriously broken.

> Could you tell me, who or what is filling System-Settings and what do I need to 
> do ? It became an extreemly difficult job to build KDE-4.4, and I have already 
> build more then 10 BLFS systems !
> 
After working on this, I think that I have determined that it isn't 
working.  I currently have KDE-4.4 installed in: "/usr/KDE-4.4" since I 
have multiple versions on the system, and I installed with:

   SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc/kde-4.4

and GNOME stuff installed with:

   --prefix=/usr/gnome-2 --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome

In: "/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf", I have:

   <includedir>/etc/gnome/dbus-1/session.d</includedir>
   <includedir>/etc/kde-4.4/dbus-1/session.d</includedir>
   <servicedir>/usr/gnome-2/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
   <servicedir>/usr/KDE-4.4/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>


In: "/etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf", I have:

   <includedir>/etc/gnome/dbus-1/system.d</includedir>
   <includedir>/etc/kde-4.4/dbus-1/system.d</includedir>
   <servicedir>/usr/gnome-2/share/dbus-1/system-services</servicedir>
   <servicedir>/usr/KDE-4.4/share/dbus-1/system-services</servicedir>

and I find no KDE policy kit services in:

   SystemSettings -> Advanced -> PolicyKit Authorization

There is no tree with a root: "org.kde", which IIUC, I should see in the 
list window.  A tree rooted "org.gnome" is shown so I presume that I 
have the configuration correct.

I also note that when opened in a "root" KDE session that I cannot save 
the clock settings.  The file:

   /etc/kde-4.4/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.conf

has:

   <policy user="root">
     <allow own="org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock"/>
   </policy>

which, IIUC, should allow "root" to use that KCM and save the changes.

So, is there a bug?  It appears to me that KDE is not finding the 
relevant files despite correct configuration.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch