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stasiana

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Registered: 2017-04-23

Posts: 5

Cannot start polkit? (Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1)

I'm having problems with XFCE and I suspect it might be something to do with polkit, so I installed a new Arch Linux system to try it. Step 1: install polkit:

$ sudo pacman -S polkit
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) js-24.2.0-4  nspr-4.13.1-1  polkit-0.113+29+g3272a98-1

Total Download Size:    2.77 MiB
Total Installed Size:  13.78 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
 nspr-4.13.1-1-x86_64        189.6 KiB   598K/s 00:00 [############################] 100%
 js-24.2.0-4-x86_64            2.2 MiB  1724K/s 00:01 [############################] 100%
 polkit-0.113+29+g3272a...   373.5 KiB  1753K/s 00:00 [############################] 100%
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                        [############################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity                      [############################] 100%
(3/3) loading package files                           [############################] 100%
(3/3) checking for file conflicts                     [############################] 100%
(3/3) checking available disk space                   [############################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/3) installing nspr                                 [############################] 100%
(2/3) installing js                                   [############################] 100%
(3/3) installing polkit                               [############################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

Looks good. Step 2: check status and start:

$ systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static; vendor preset: disable
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:polkit(8)

$ sudo systemctl start polkit

$ systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static; vendor preset: disable
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:polkit(8)

Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx polkitd[596]: Started polkitd version 0.114
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx polkitd[596]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx polkitd[596]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx polkitd[596]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx polkitd[596]: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exiting
Apr 23 08:03:56 xxx systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.

Polkit fails with "lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1". Step 3: Make sure there is a polkitd user and dbus is running:

$ id polkitd
uid=102(polkitd) gid=102(polkitd) groups=102(polkitd),26(proc)

$ ps auxww | grep dbus
dbus       244  0.0  0.4  39988  4516 ?        Ss   08:00   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

What could be causing polkit to not run properly on a newly installed system, nothing custom?

Last edited by stasiana (2017-04-23 15:27:20)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,715

Re: Cannot start polkit? (Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1)

sudo pacman -S polkit

might be the issue.  It may have done a partial update.

May I suggest you do a pacman -Syu

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