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pbarill
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Joined: 08 Jul 2015
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:37 am Post subject: Broken polkit: no more suspend or mount flash drive |
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Two things don't work anymore, after a number of updates, and they seem related. Since when? A few weeks ago. I thought it would "naturally" go away with subsequent, and it does not.
Issues:
* Unable to suspend (put machine to sleep). Although `pm-suspend` works as root, I cannot click the usual "sleep" icon disappeared from KDE.
* Unable to mount usb flash drive normally (it works as root with `mount`). In KDE, the lower-right popup appears as usual, then where you click the icon to connect (or mount), it says
| Quote: | | You are not authorized to perform this operation: Not authorized to perform operation (polkit authority not available and caller is not uid 0) |
The first issue is annoying. The second one is frustrating.
Seems to be about polkit. When I run `pkaction`, I get
| Quote: | | Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 received signal 11 |
What I did: remerge any installed package that has 'polkit', 'dbus' or 'consolekit' in its name. Result: No effect. Tried downgrading polkit. No effect.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about polkit, other than its existence (so at least it's not about me breaking it). Yes, I glanced at the wiki…
System: amd64 stable, openrc, KDE4, kernel 4.0.5 (had this before updating kernel), with latest updates (deep/bdeps/newuse) as of 1 day ago (webrsync).
I'm out of ideas at this point. |
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robinmarlow
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Joined: 10 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:41 am Post subject: |
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I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop and seem to have hit this process too.
In the end I appeared to solve it by adding to :
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules
| Code: | polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if ((
action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media-system" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
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Not sure if this will fix your problem, as i don't really understand what the hell polkit is for either.
I use XFCE where I know there is something to do with making sure there is a polkit agent, but if you're on KDE then that should be fine.
Good luck! |
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Roman_Gruber
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Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Posts: 3846
Location: Austro Bavaria
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I do not have any writing rights for using my optical drive and that laptop is 6 years old. So my group permissions whatever should be alright. I will test later if I get the permissions back when I try your "hack"
Thanks
Now I am able to erase CDRW which I could not before as ordinary user.
This is definitely needed for i3wm with minimal setup |
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Navar
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Joined: 20 Aug 2012
Posts: 353
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:01 am Post subject: |
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It wasn't a *kit related issue for me, particularly if you can: | Code: | | # echo mem >/sys/power/state |
with expected results. The other hint is if Redhat's script fails when it functioned prior to ~May/June 2015.
If you're running openrc (where the login1 references in prior post wouldn't apply versus systemd naming changes, aka upower-pm-utils vs upower) and possibly have /bin/sh set to anything other than bash, have a look at bug affecting sys-power/pm-utils. |
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