Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user

PhotonX · 2015-09-01 06:49:01

Hello community,

after yesterday's update I get following message box asking for my password at every boot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/vie … 7%3A42.png

Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user
Action: org.freeedesktop.policykit.exec

If I cancel it, it comes again in some seconds. Any thoughts, what could be the reason?

Thanks in advance,
PhotonX

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-01 13:18:35

Which packages were updated?

Have you checked your polkit rules?

Look at the output of:

pkaction --verbose

PhotonX · 2015-09-02 07:27:54

$ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2015-08-31
[2015-08-31 15:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2015-08-31 15:19] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-08-31 15:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S -u'
[2015-08-31 15:19] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-08-31 15:20] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 15:20] [ALPM] upgraded libraw (0.16.2-1 -> 0.17.0-1)
[2015-08-31 15:20] [ALPM] upgraded evas_generic_loaders (1.14.0-2 -> 1.14.0-3)
[2015-08-31 15:20] [ALPM] upgraded git (2.5.0-1 -> 2.5.1-1)
[2015-08-31 15:20] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-08-31 15:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-photon/PKGDEST.dQT/dolphin-emu-git-4.0.2.r7490.368867d-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-31 15:55] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 15:55] [ALPM] upgraded dolphin-emu-git (4.0.2.r7180.14a0b01-1 -> 4.0.2.r7490.368867d-1)
[2015-08-31 15:55] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-08-31 16:28] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-photon/PKGDEST.FY3/dolphin-emu-qt-git-4.0.2.r7490.368867d-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-31 16:28] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 16:28] [ALPM] upgraded dolphin-emu-qt-git (4.0.2.r7180.14a0b01-1 -> 4.0.2.r7490.368867d-1)
[2015-08-31 16:28] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-08-31 19:13] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-photon/PKGDEST.ryl/koma-script-3.16.2150-3-any.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] upgraded koma-script (3.16.1929-3 -> 3.16.2150-3)
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] texhash: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... 
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... 
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... 
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] texhash: Done.
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-08-31 19:13] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-photon/PKGDEST.AAh/purple-facebook-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] upgraded purple-facebook (16-1 -> 17-1)
[2015-08-31 19:13] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-08-31 19:14] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2015-08-31 19:14] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-08-31 19:14] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S -u'
[2015-08-31 19:14] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-08-31 19:14] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-08-31 19:14] [ALPM] upgraded gdb (7.9.1-1 -> 7.10-1)
[2015-08-31 19:14] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-mesa (10.6.4-1 -> 10.6.5-1)
[2015-08-31 19:14] [ALPM] transaction completed

The only polkit rule is in 50-default.rules and it is the default one:

polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
    return ["unix-group:wheel"];
});

pkaction gives a lot of output and I don't really know what to search for.

PhotonX · 2015-09-03 06:32:06

I now found out that the message comes for executing Hamachi: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/logmein-hamachi/ However, the last update of logmein-hamachi is half a year back (2015-03-06 to be precise) so it must be something else which got updated...

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#1 2015-09-01 06:49:01

Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user

#2 2015-09-01 13:18:35

Re: Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user

#3 2015-09-02 07:27:54

Re: Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user

#4 2015-09-03 06:32:06

Re: Authentication is needed to run "/usr/bin/systemctl" as the super user

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