On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:30:04 -0600 Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:54 PM R. G. Newbury <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brand new Fedora 32 KDE spin installation. Seems to work nicely, except:
>
> I have an error notification popping up, every hour, in the bottom right
> corner of the screen:
>
> Plasma Desktop Workspace (and the minutes since the message was posted,
> or the time, hourly of a previous message)
> Update Error
> Sender is not authorized to send message.
That sounds like a dbus error. Have you seen any indication of an
SELinux denial? If not, run "journalctl -x" in a terminal and search
for "Sender is not authorized to send message". Does it appear? If
so, what are the lines immediately above and below that?
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It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable
selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I forgot to
do that.
A quick edit to /etc/selinux/config and a reboot solved removed the
annoyance. (I cannot say 'solved the problem as I have no idea what the
actual problem was: this was the 'sledge-hammer for walnuts' resolution.)
Now how you deciphered that that was where the error came from is just
further evidence that far too much of system management is arcane magic:
Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
Oddly 1) I was running as root... so *who/what* was the 'unauthorized
sender'? and
2) Journalctl showed NOTHING about errors.
Thanks for the help Jerry
R. Geoffrey Newbury
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