Bug#839912: gnome-settings-daemon: failed cmd exectuion on gdm display

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 15:36 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> I don't know why it'd want to run a command, as user root, expecially
> when I have my desktop session active. There are no visible side effects
> to this failed attempt, but this does not look correct.

Actually, from a power savings perspective, this has substantial negative
impact. Is there no way to disable this ?

rrs at learner:~/rrs-home/Community/Packaging/multipath-tools (experimental)$ sudo
execsnoop 
Tracing exec()s. Ctrl-C to end.
Instrumenting sys_execve
   PID   PPID ARGS
 15289  15287 cat -v trace_pipe
 15288  15284 gawk -v o=1 -v opt_name=0 -v name= -v opt_duration=0 [...]
 15290   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15291   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15294   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15295   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15298   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15299   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15302   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15303   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15306   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15307   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15310   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15311   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15316   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15317   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15320   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15321   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15324   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15325   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15328   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15329   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15332   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15333   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15336   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15337   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15340   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15341   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15344   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15345   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15348   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15349   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15352   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15353   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15356   6366             Xorg-15356 [002] d... 26619.197560:
execsnoop_sys_execve: (SyS_execve+0x0/0x40)
 15357  15356 /usr/bin/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/share/X11/xkb -xkm - -em1 The
XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp [...]
 15358   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15359   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
 15362   6085 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-
brightness
 15363   6085 pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-
brightness 927
^C
Ending tracing...
2016-11-28 / 15:27:45 ♒♒♒  ☺  


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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