On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/02/12 14:27, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>>> >>>>>>> Reading back through this thread I don't see whether Colleen tried my >>>>>> suggestion about a creating a new user. My thought was that some KDE >>>>>> config file somewhere got corrupted and a new user would not have that >>>>>> same issue. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I did create a new user and it didn't help. I've tried every suggestion >>>> made in this thread to no avail. For example, I changed the group of >>>> /dev/pts to tty as others indicated that that was what it was supposed >>>> to be. >>> >>> >>> I just noticed that despite the fact that I changed the group of /dev/pts >>> to >>> tty (I did this as root), it didn't stick - it reverted back to colleen. >>> So >>> how do I fix this? >> >> Is the consolekit USE flag enabled on your system? > Yes, it's part of my USE flags in make.conf.
I'm not running consolekit here, but I suspect the ownership switching you're seeing relates to either that or policykit (which I note in your kdelibs USE flags). -- :wq
