{"id":2701,"date":"2022-08-30T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/06\/lost-privileges-since-upgrading-to-13-10-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:27:03","slug":"lost-privileges-since-upgrading-to-13-10-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/lost-privileges-since-upgrading-to-13-10-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost privileges since upgrading to 13.10-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since upgrading to 13.10, I no longer have the ‘privileges’ to do the following things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mount USB\/CDROM drives<\/li>\n
  2. Run software centre or software updater<\/li>\n
  3. Press the GUI shut down or restart buttons<\/li>\n
  4. Unlock my account in the ‘settings – user accounts’ section (padlock is greyed out)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Also, when logging on as a guest user I get error messages relating to Compiz crashing with SIGSEGV and it hangs on a blank wallpaper screen.<\/p>\n

    However, I still am able to use sudo in the terminal.<\/p>\n

    Output of ‘groups’ is<\/p>\n

    jenchris adm dialout cdrom sudo audio video plugdev lpadmin admin pulse pulse-access sambashare\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    sudo usermod -U username<\/code> doesn’t have any effect<\/p>\n
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    1. \n
      I believe the GUI apps talk to policykit & consolekit over dbus. There is also a requirement that you login from a ‘modern’ display manager like lightdm or gdm and not xdm or from a tty (and user startx\/xinit). Make sure you have all the relevant policykit & consolekit packages installed and that dbus is running properly.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Originally posted 2014-02-06 04:21:25. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Since upgrading to 13.10, I no longer have the ‘privileges’ to do the following things: Mount USB\/CDROM drives Run software centre or software updater Press the GUI shut down or restart buttons Unlock my account in the ‘settings – user accounts’ section (padlock is greyed out) Also, when logging on as a guest user I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}