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GhostieGirl

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[SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

I was having an issue with Polkit and the KDE authentication agent would flash on screen for half a second and then automatically fail. I think this was likely due to a bad rule surrounding libfprint. I was being lazy though and didnt feel like figuring out what was going wrong. I deleted /usr/share/polkit-1 and /etc/polkit-1 and then reinstalled polkit and the kde authentication agent, assuming it would recreate the missing files in a fresh install. This doesnt seem to have happened as both Plasma and Hyprland crash on startup. I can still drop into a terminal though. Before I do more dumb things I figured it might be good to ask if there is an obvious solution Im missing.

Last edited by GhostieGirl (2024-08-07 23:00:34)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

pacman -Qkk | grep polkit

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GhostieGirl

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Redirecting grep to a file yeilds the following. But theres also a whole lot of warnings about how various polkit files are missing or dont exist.

polkit: 218 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-kde-agent: 211 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-qt5: 59 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-qt6: 59 total flles, 0 altered files  

Last edited by GhostieGirl (2024-08-07 21:51:14)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Is that the entire output and why did you scratch it?
The point was to figure whether you've any files missing in the /etc/polkit path, you might have to "sudo pacman -Qkk |& grep polkit" (sudo b/c of test permissions and |& to capture stderr, works in bash and zsh)

If you're not lacking any polkit rules & actions, please post your complete system journal for the boot after failing to start KDE or hyprland:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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NuSkool

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Seth,

Running `'pacman -Qkk | grep polkit'` didn't give useful looking results, and a bunch of unrelated, expected stuff from stderr that didn't get grepped on my (unbroken as the op's) system.
The following variation wasn't much better.

pacman -Qkk |& grep 'polkit'
polkit: 218 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-gnome: 158 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-qt6: 59 total files, 0 altered files

However, this (mess) gives a list of packages needing either reinstalled, or use paccat to get copies to replace the missing dirs/files?

pacman -Qlq | grep 'polkit-1' | grep -E 'policy|rules' | xargs -n1 pacman -Qoq | sort -u

EDIT:

lot of warnings about how various polkit files are missing or dont exist

Well never mind this. That's what Seth was likely looking for.

Last edited by NuSkool (2024-08-07 22:08:48)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

However, this (mess) gives a list of packages needing either reinstalled

No, why?
This lists all files under pacman control and filters them for polkit-1 and policy|rules - that doesn't mean any of them is currently missing or broken.
That what -Qkk would provide.
If your system isn't broken and you didn't delete any files you would not expect anything from the -Qkk run.

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NuSkool

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Yea sorry....  jumped in too quick on this before thinking it through.

My thinking was if she had deleted the directory  /usr/share/polkit-1/, that contains all the stuff the packages place in there....

And you're right pacman -Qkk would show them as missing on her broken system. Not on my healthy system.

Last edited by NuSkool (2024-08-07 22:07:10)

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GhostieGirl

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

I scratched the first one before replacing it because that was the output to the wrong command. And using &grep gives the warnings I was seeing.

warning: accountsservice: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: bolt: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.bolt.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: bolt: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.bolt.rules (No such file or directory)
warning: brltty: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.a11y.brlapi.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: brltty: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.a11y.brlapi.rules (No such file or directory)
clwarning: connman: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.connman.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: connman: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.connman.vpn.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: cpu-x: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/io.github.thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.cpu-x-daemon.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: fingerprint-gui: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/cc.ullrich-online.fingerprint-gui.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: gamemode: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: gamemode: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gamemode.rules (No such file or directory)
warning: geoclue: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.rules (No such file or directory)
kpeople: 255 total files, 0 altered fiwarning: ktexteditor: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.ktexteditor6.katetextbuffer.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: meson: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.mesonbuild.install.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: modemmanager: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: pcsclite: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.pcsc-lite.policy (No such file or directory)
polkit: 218 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-kde-agent: 211 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-qt5: 59 total files, 0 altered files
polkit-qt6: 59 total files, 0 altered files
qemu-ui-gtk: 15 towarning: rtkit: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: spice-gtk: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/io.systemd.credentials.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/io.systemd.mount-file-system.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.home1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.hostname1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.import1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.locale1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.machine1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.network1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.portable1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.resolve1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.systemd1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.timedate1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.timesync1.policy (No such file or directory)
warning: systemd: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/systemd-networkd.rules (No such file or directory)
tree-sitter-python: 19 total files, 0 altered fwarning: udisks2: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy (No such file or directory)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Well, there's your disaster list, systemd is lethal, but you want to re-install all those packages.

Beware the copypaste issues: connman, ktexteditor,  rtkit and udisks2 got mangled.
Re-check the command afterwards to make sure you didn't forget anything.

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GhostieGirl

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Re: [SOLVED] Deleted Polkit Configuration

Edit: It does at least 2.8 did, I prolly messed up either the creation of the list or use of it previously. Anyways, Thanks so much for your help, super appreciate it.
Should this (minus the --needed part)  not have fixed that though?

Last edited by GhostieGirl (2024-08-07 23:09:45)