On Monday 25 January 2010 14:22:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 25 January 2010 12:16:35 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 11:00:27 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 January 2010 22:28:29 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > My router makes regular NTP checks. I wanted to set this laptop to
> > > > sync with
> > > > the router, so attempted to activate NTP in SystemSettings. First,
> > > > I tried
> > > > setting it to my router's IP. I was asked for the root
password,
> > > > twice, then
> > > > told that it could not authenticate. While it didn't seem
likely
> > > > that it would affect authentication, I then tried setting it to the
> > > > Europe ntp pool. Again, I was ask for the root password twice, and
> > > > again told that it could not authenticate.
> > >
> > > What fedora/kde releases are you using here?
> > >
> > > I think we may have some f12/polkit1 related auth issues to sort out.
> >
> > Probably not relevant, in view of Jaroslav's reply, but I have
> > kdebase-workspace-4.3.90-9.fc12.i686
>
> It's relevant - this is KDE 4.4 only issue. I hope we will find solution
> asap. Probably reporting it upstream would be nice too.
Bug #219035
Although the setting appeared to hold, when I ran systemsettings as root, I
later found it to be disabled in systemsettings.
This module has always a little bit weird :-) I use to set automatic date &
time during installation from within Anaconda. I've never seen this setting
being taken over by KDE.
Martin Kho
Anne