D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 02:04 PM: > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 01:56 PM: >> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting >> with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so of >> actual installation: >> > >> Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid: The >> permission of the setuid helper is not correct >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >> > > At this point, I am getting the same error if I simply do: > apt-get update > > after listing the "hit" and "ignore" packages, I see: > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid: The > permission of the setuid helper is not correct The fix was described at this URL: http://f7t.fr/blog/?p=165 Explicitly, the solution was to execute: chmod u+s /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper In passing, I note that at no point had I ever touched the permissions associated with this file or, indeed, anything in the /usr hierarchy. A package or program I installed must have done so. All the packages on this machine are official ones, with the exception that I do have the zfs packages installed as well. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
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