Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:19:00 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Gerrit_K=c3=bchn?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> Cc: freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: polkit not running after update Message-ID: <21641b51-cd84-9ed6-6d0c-371efbc0b896@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <20210118115818.400403af@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> References: <20210118112011.70fa6542@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> <f2577bf3-8690-0a54-789f-97f37514166a@madpilot.net> <20210118115818.400403af@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de>
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On 18/01/21 11:58, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > Am Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:41:07 +0100 > schrieb Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>: > >>> --- >>> Jan 18 10:58:57 beastie dbus-daemon[36795]: [system] Failed to activate >>> service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out >>> (service_start_timeout=25000ms) >>> --- >>> >>> >>> However, I'm unable to find out /why/ this happens and how to fix it. >>> Any hints? > >> Not easy to guess. Also, while I do work on xfce ports I know little >> about polkit details. xfce uses it, but it's not part of xfce. > > Thanks for your time. Is there any better place where I could ask > about this? Well, the polkit port is maintained by desktop@, so you could write to desktop@freebsd.prg too, that would at least widen your audience. > >> You could also try launching polkitd by hand as a user or as root and >> see what it says It should also have a --debug flag. > > Turns out, it rather has a --no-debug flag. ;-) > With debugging enabled I get the following: > > --- > root@beastie:~ # /usr/local/lib/polkit-1/polkitd > Successfully changed to user polkitd > 11:52:18.901: Loading rules from directory /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/rules.d > 11:52:18.901: Loading rules from directory > /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d 11:52:18.901: Finished loading, > compiling and executing 1 rules Entering main event loop > Connected to the system bus > 11:52:18.903: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exiting > Shutting down > Exiting with code 0 > --- > > Searching about this, this looks like the communication with dbus is not > working properly. This matches the error message I previously got from the > other end (dbus) in /var/log/messages. Somehow the two processes fail to > cumminucate with each other. I'd take a look at the policyd and dbus policies in /usr/local/etc/polkit-1 and /usr/local/etc/dbus-1. If something changed there recently, do you have any customizations in those files? Especially the file /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf, is it unmodified from what the port installs? There should be a .sample file you can try a diff from. Since there is a .sample file, if in the past this one was modified from any reason, upgrading or reinstalling the port would not update it. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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