From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 14:30:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A371E10656C4 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:30:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from villa.alberto@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f51.google.com (mail-ww0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353398FC1C for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb31 with SMTP id 31so12386wwb.8 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:30:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qefxf5+v+pXvSElXikS3MjkjitZkm89hyOdFISdtHZA=; b=Dou8C2qL0m4B1cLLkcsuhQWCgSTIDtrtL4i61V6GFfiIWYPm6EjbEyutFGfKksAshP EG4CC08gjy3h3RpiKnc6ijXH85HyXLzDrO62BakKu2Qvv7n9jOcMo1U3eZ0qcwgZQ4aH 8fRfo1KpgBkzc4og3IQu+4mu0dK16vizZ+laQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=r4HYsNht18kfW6xAtSADb1Py6dJEM3dtrsqV44mokBiIFLpjG4Qd7/7Jw7IhImgIcJ Ow7NXwLe54fnPMYOf3RkvuOL3tTb8rJYRSAO3EgLe9d9WcBEYkeDkHCFeoaRuJ+stg9M xJMSxQ/K+CfIQ457GnTS9yBE0TdNuxkCTSz1U= Received: by 10.204.3.65 with SMTP id 1mr7463730bkm.210.1277992932183; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:02:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: villa.alberto@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.62.194 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:01:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C2C96D8.5000902@msen.com> References: <4C2C96D8.5000902@msen.com> From: Alberto Villa Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:01:52 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4flWenh1eqIYtNpq1uWrpff5eZ4 Message-ID: To: Mark Moellering Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] problems with Policykit in KDE4.3 on Freebsd 8 amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:30:37 -0000 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Mark Moellering wrote: > Apologies for the cross posting. > I recently did a fresh install of Freebsd 8 , amd64. > I then added Xorg and KDE (4.3) from the sysinstall packages system. > > I read about policykit, which seems really cool. =A0I set-up PolicyKit in > the KDE systems settings and things worked great (adding USB drives), > until I rebooted. > Now it doesn't really work. =A0It seems to me that even though KDE saved > my settings, it isn't initializing something at boot or login. > Does anyone know what needs to be done? =A0Do I need to use kdm? =A0Add a > line to rc.conf? =A0I am pretty good at Freebsd but getting KDE4 > subsystems working is still a little mysterious. hello! a fix for (console|policy)kit related issues was committed two weeks ago. you need to upgrade your kde, and yes, you need to use kdm or gdm to use policykit (there is a howto on http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 - at least i guess... the wiki doesn't work at the moment) --=20 Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla