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TheChuckster

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Registered: 2013-07-19

Posts: 14

Installing xfce4 AFTER Cinnamon breaks Cinnamon (polkit conflict)

xfce4 requires xfce4-polkit-git package which conflicts with gnome-polkit, once you decide to use xfce4-polkit-git instead of gnome-polkit, Cinnamon refuses to start and the logs show:

unable to find component polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

Removing xfce4-polkit-git and reinstalling gnome-polkit fixes Cinnamon startup, and also, xfce4 startup is not broken either even with gnome-polkit instead of xfce4-polkit-git.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,668

Re: Installing xfce4 AFTER Cinnamon breaks Cinnamon (polkit conflict)

Report this to the AUR maintainer, there's no reason for them to conflict.

FWIW that's somewhat of a special situation, as XFCE supports multiple authentication agents, and the repo version hardcodes on the gnome-polkit implementation (and that will ultimately not make much difference for the end user both simply provide a GTK3 based agent).

Moving to AUR issues...

Last edited by V1del (2019-04-14 22:13:04)