[gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth --grant org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.modify --user USERNAME However

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: $ /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --replace --no-debug I think you want debug ... so: $ /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --replace right? No additional output here, tried clicking user-menu (upper right) as mentioned in your bug-report ... I fixed

[gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-07 Thread Martin Vaeth
james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Hmmm. OK, so I avoid systemd and nepomuk (actually all of KDE) but > polkit? I try and run a minimized DE environment, but on a workstation, > I'm constantly evaluating various codes, so how do I avoid polkit? USE=-policykit obviously helps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
is that every application icon I click on starts in the background but never appears on the gnome desktop :/ Almost like they're being displayed on a remote X server instead of my local machine. Weird. Turned out to be the update of polkit from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6, which was dragged in by the update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 09:42, n952162 wrote: > Okay, I found "equery g polkit", which gives me the dependency tree I was > looking for, but I just realized, I don't have polkit, either. But the > emerge @system (or @world) has: > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy &q

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth --grant org.freedesktop.network-manager

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is polkit-auth

2010-04-22 Thread Damian
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com writes: On 04/22/2010 12:17 PM, Damian wrote: After installing network manager I got the following message: L To save system-wide settings as a user, that user needs to have the L right policykit privileges. You can add them by running: L polkit-auth

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Keith Dart
@dartworks.bizCADPrc80EwExpbdcJX1a+aE0DA=iopqw-QOaozmUBJCs5FGew-g@mail.gmail.com20121109171149.1d8a3e18@dartworks.biz509D9C62.9040909@gmail.com509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.sek7k1hn$ce6$1...@ger.gmane.org, Canek Peláez Valdés said: What does emerge -1pv sys-auth/polkit says? The pam use flag has always been set globally

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
-1pv sys-auth/polkit says? The pam use flag has always been set globally. Here is the output: venus ~ # emerge -1pv sys-auth/polkit These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r1 USE=acl

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
? Not polkitd but a polkituser - what should I have? polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin I have a similar entry, but with UID 991. But I wonder why you don't have a polkitd user. Maybe this is your problem? The entry should be like this, at least for sys-auth/polkit

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop

2019-12-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:55:29 +, you wrote: > ... > If you can't run suspend/hibernate it may be polkit policies are not allowing > you to run these commands via dbus. However, polkit policies are > automatically installed/updated as required by the packages you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-07 Thread james
y. > > So there is hardly a difference from the system. > > I agree that the number of possible exploits for the former was slightly > decreased if you had a correspondingly configured hardened kernel > (and provided, of course, that you have not other gapping security holes &

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile polkit-0.107-r1 or polkit-0.108 on one computer

2012-12-04 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I've run into a really strange problem during an upgrade from KDE 4.8 to KDE 4.9. This upgrade includes an upgrade in polkit from version 0.104 to 0.107-r1. The problem with the latter release is that I cannot emerge polkit for release=0.107-r1 (did not tes it with plain 0.107), because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread n952162
bly indeed don't have consolekit - I'm one of the 45%. It seems to be polkit that's forcing me to make a decision  - do I need it? What tool can I use to find a dependency tree? Okay, I found "equery g polkit", which gives me the dependency tree I was looking for, but I just realized,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which .keep file creation is failing

2023-08-22 Thread Michael
uild process, when installing > polkit, with a "keepfile creation failed" error, or similar. > > How can I find out where it's trying to install a .keep file? I tried > installing polkit on another machine and searching for .keep, but nothing > related appeared. > > (Thi

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

2010-04-23 Thread Damian
Damian damian.o...@gmail.com writes: Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried to do what is mentioned here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication

[gentoo-user] Cannot mount USB stick using Dolphin

2011-06-05 Thread Mick
Both consolekit and polkit are running. What could be the problem? $ ps axf | grep polkit 8961 pts/1SN+0:00 \_ grep --color=auto polkit 5678 ?Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkitd $ ps axf | grep console 5594 ?Ssl0:00 /usr/sbin/console

[gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

2011-07-06 Thread john
Oops apologies. Should send this on gentoo-user email address. Since a recent upgrade of polkit (I think) as a normal user I can no longer shutdown using log out, shutdown option not available. As root using shutdown only logs you out but does not shutdown. On a second machine as a normal user

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend, hibernate and mount stopped working as a regular user.

2012-07-04 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 07/04/12 at 02:48pm, Alex Schuster wrote: Or maybe sys-auth/polkit? There were issues lately with a nonexisting home directory, the elog message tells us to fix this with: usermod -d /var/lib/polkit-1 polkitd Wonko Hi, Thanks for the reply. Oddly the only polkit related

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Matti Nykyri
: /sbin/poweroff says Must be a superuser :( Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

2016-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:17:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Instead of setting USE=-gtk in your `/etc/portage/make.conf` try > > setting `sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1 -gtk` in > > `/etc/portage/package.use/polkit` > > I guessed you meant to say polkit so: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Policykit problems (blueman, nm-applet, USB mount, etc) after some update

2018-11-08 Thread Mick
required to run the GParted Partition Editor > > Authenticating as: root > > Password: > > polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: > > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie > > AUTHENTICATION FAILED &g

[gentoo-user] Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

2010-04-23 Thread Damian
Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried to do what is mentioned here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/ But polkit-auth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that matter). i only have the /etc/polkit-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend, hibernate and mount stopped working as a regular user.

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Yohan Pereira writes: This happened after a recent world upgrade. I am currently using kde 4.8.4. I can however suspend, hibernate using the pm-utils as root. Google has lead me to believe this has something to do with consolekit. Or maybe sys-auth/polkit? There were issues lately

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 16:19, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. I have troubles with that combo for a month or so ... seems as if polkit-0.107 somehow is responsible for stuff not mounted here. ~amd64 btw, gnome-3-context. udisks comes

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

2014-09-29 Thread Mick
that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus and consolekit. So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche. Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL MariaDB, and I don't even use either

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh Connection reset by port 22

2020-12-15 Thread thelma
On 12/15/2020 07:53 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > During compiling -uavDN @world one of the package refuse to compile > > sys-auth/polkit-0.118::gentoo failed (configure phase): > econf failed [snip] > > Now, I can no longer ssh to to it, I get: > Connection reset

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
, superseded (at least on my system) by polkit, the configuration files of which are under /etc/polkit-1 now, i found lots of examples on the web how to configure the old PolicyKit.conf file to allow normal users mount usb devices, but it took some time to find out how to configure the polkit files. here's

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Dale
I assume you have kde enabled on sys-auth/polkit, that pulls in sys- auth/polkit-kde-agent and sys-auth/polkit-kde. Thats all the qt-* and kdelibs packages. My point and the previous discussion was about this: root@fireball / # emerge -ep @system | grep kde [ebuild R ~] kde-base/kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

2016-12-09 Thread Andrej Rode
Hi, > (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" > [installed]) > (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed]) > (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]" > [in

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2013-02-01 20:39, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Having an empty log is also weird; mine says: Jan 30 01:19:20 centurion polkitd[1614]: Started polkitd version 0.110 Jan 30 01:19:22 centurion polkitd[1614]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Jan 30 01:19:22 centurion

[gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

2014-09-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

2014-09-29 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
a read and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus and consolekit. So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche. Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL MariaDB, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
/subversion-1.6.15 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1 [nomerge ]sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.96.1 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 [ebuild R] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.99 [ebuild R] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.4.5

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop

2019-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday, 20 December 2019 16:14:00 GMT you wrote: > Mick, > > On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:55:29 +, you wrote: > > ... > > If you can't run suspend/hibernate it may be polkit policies are not > > allowing you to run these commands via dbus. However, polkit policie

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

2016-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrej Rode <m...@andrejro.de> writes: > Hi, > >> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" >> [installed]) >> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed]) >> (dependency req

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
@gmail.com509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.sek7k1hn$ce6$1...@ger.gmane.org, Canek Peláez Valdés said: Do an equery depends pambase and see what it's trying to pull pambase with consolekit. Perhaps do you have something in /etc/portage/package.use? It seems like polkit is actually the culprit. * These packages depend

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-local.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 16 13:51 /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service - /dev/null It cleans up the output of systemctl --full --all. Ok, so I don't need auditd or plymouth, right? Well, I have no idea why your gdm is not letting you log in; obviously it's related to polkit

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

2016-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:17:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > Instead of setting USE=-gtk in your `/etc/portage/make.conf` try >> > setting `sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1 -gtk` in >> > `/etc/portage/package.u

[gentoo-user] Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop

2019-12-20 Thread Mick
Rainer, If you can't run suspend/hibernate it may be polkit policies are not allowing you to run these commands via dbus. However, polkit policies are automatically installed/updated as required by the packages you have on your system. For example, this is what I have on my desktop (KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
ependency required by "sys-auth/pambase-20201013::gentoo[elogind]" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "sys-libs/pam-1.4.0_p20200829::gentoo" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "sys-auth/passwdqc-1.4.0-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) This does not really indicate an error

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Nils Larsson
kde enabled on sys-auth/polkit, that pulls in sys- auth/polkit-kde-agent and sys-auth/polkit-kde. Thats all the qt-* and kdelibs packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
to lead to problems at some point. Or maybe I am reading all this wrong? Dale I assume you have kde enabled on sys-auth/polkit, that pulls in sys- auth/polkit-kde-agent and sys-auth/polkit-kde. Thats all the qt-* and kdelibs packages. It appears I was wrong after all. Manners

Re: [gentoo-user] user mount authorization failed

2011-09-09 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
this functionality which was ok in my other environment than xfce? you need to configure polkit for this to work. Create a file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/my-polkit-udisks.pkla with content: [udisks full access] Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.* ResultActive=yes

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-08 Thread walt
on starts in the background but never appears on the gnome desktop :/ Almost like they're being displayed on a remote X server instead of my local machine. Weird. Turned out to be the update of polkit from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6, which was dragged in by the update of udisks from 1.97.0 to 1.98.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re jqsvb2$3a0$1@dough.gmane.orgjqsvb2$3a0$1...@dough.gmane.org, walt said: For reasons I don't know, the polkit daemon wasn't actually running. Dunno if it failed to start or somebody forgot to start it. Either way the system was broken, so I'll let the experts figure it out. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
have no idea why your gdm is not letting you log in; obviously it's related to polkit (since it started when you changed from consolekit to polkit), but nothing in your config seems to differ from mine. It is not impossible that somehow the configuration files of the gdm user got messed up when

[gentoo-user] Re: going from systemd to udev

2014-02-06 Thread walt
, race-free and deterministic way than ConsoleKit. Do you have systemd with the policykit USE flag? And polkit with the systemd USE flag? (I suppose the later must have it). Yes systemd has polkit and polkit has systemd. If you do, can you please show us the output (make sure to do

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
a pre-compiled executable without many issues. > I have a /etc/portage/package.use subdirectory containing zz-autounmask > file. > Do I need to append sys-auth/polkit elogind to the end of that > zz-autounmask file? If package.use is a directory, that's fine (and recomm

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
on the bug to freedesktop.org: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53905 It hits not only USB mounting; it also hits suspend/hibernate (I'm no longer allowed to suspend as user), setting up printers, and basically everything related to polkit. correct! Same stuff here ... additionally

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.09.2012 19:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I actually hadn't thought about downgrading polkit, since it was working

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
about downgrading polkit, since it was working with the same version in GNOME 3.2. Or maybe it was a fluke (the bug is reproducible, but sometimes I need to try several times). I will try downgrading. Didn't work with 0.106-r7 (which I had to hunt from the Attic), and I cannot downgrade to 0.104

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
y required by "sys-auth/passwdqc-1.4.0-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) > > This does not really indicate an error in your make.conf file; you just need > to > build Polkit with EITHER the `elogind` or `systemd` flags set, but you > probably > don't want to set these flags globa

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk. (solved)

2021-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
In the end it was easy: created a polkit rule enabling users in the wheel group to not use a password. rattus ~ # cat /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/55-disks.rules // Allow any user in the 'wheel' group to mount a disk // without entering a password. polkit.addRule(function(action, subject

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk. (solved)

2021-04-01 Thread Ramon Fischer
Awesome! I am glad to hear, that I could help. :) -Ramon On 01/04/2021 13:28, William Kenworthy wrote: In the end it was easy: created a polkit rule enabling users in the wheel group to not use a password. rattus ~ # cat /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/55-disks.rules // Allow any user in the 'wheel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 13:43, schrieb Keith Dart: My quick and dirty solution was to change it's home directory to /var/empty. polkitd:x:122:987:added by portage for polkit:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin Now it will start. That's probably not the best place since it is actually used

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread German
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:49:54 +0200 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:32, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: /sbin/poweroff says Must be a superuser :( Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-26 Thread Tom H
would be happy to know that you're trolling with a Fedora email address. Anyway, logind+polkit are the reason that systemd allows a user at the console to shutdown a system. Run pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.login1.power-off to see why. The same can be set up with consolekit+polkit

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 13:12, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Nope. I don't run a Gnome system, and evince pulls an absurd bunch of > dependencies, even with most USE variables unset Sure, which is why I put in that caveat :) > why would I need elogind, udisks, polkit, etc. just to read a c

[gentoo-user] How to find which .keep file creation is failing

2023-08-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, In an effort to sort out my ruby problem I'm building a new system piecemeal, by which I mean one step at a time with dev-lang/ruby masked. The latest snag is in the early stages of the build process, when installing polkit, with a "keepfile creation failed" error, or sim

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4 device detection

2011-05-27 Thread Nils Larsson
lördagen den 28 maj 2011 00:54:42 skrev Neil Bothwick: That fails on the broken box with Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Yepp, thats the error. I vaugly recall doing a emerge -1 dbus polkit consolekit udisks etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Dale
of USE flags, is going to lead to problems at some point. Or maybe I am reading all this wrong? Dale I assume you have kde enabled on sys-auth/polkit, that pulls in sys- auth/polkit-kde-agent and sys-auth/polkit-kde. Thats all the qt-* and kdelibs packages. It appears I was wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

2011-07-06 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 16:37:40 john wrote: Since a recent upgrade of polkit (I think) as a normal user I can no longer shutdown using log out, shutdown option not available. As root using shutdown only logs you out but does not shutdown. On a second machine as a normal user I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] failure to login with xdm or gdm

2012-06-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
I have fixed the problem by downgrading polkit and udisks. To answer your questions Thanks, had the same problem. Was just about to leave the house, thought I'd do a quick reboot first, but instead of a login screen, I got a blank screen. It's always something when you are invited to a barbecue

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? Philipp Not polkitd but a polkituser - what should I have? polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin I run ~amd64, there was a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
=53905 It hits not only USB mounting; it also hits suspend/hibernate (I'm no longer allowed to suspend as user), setting up printers, and basically everything related to polkit. correct! Same stuff here ... additionally accessing libvirt (if compiled with polkit). Could you run polkitd without

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:31, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Oh, BTW; I just run /usr/sbin/libvirtd --verbose as my user before starting boxes; everything works. It also works invoking qemu by hand. I rebuilt libvirt without the polkit-USE-flag. Standalone box for myself, unix-auth is enough ... IMO. S

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Keith Dart
: Do an equery depends pambase and see what it's trying to pull pambase with consolekit. Perhaps do you have something in /etc/portage/package.use? It seems like polkit is actually the culprit. * These packages depend on pambase: app-admin/sudo-1.8.6_p3 (pam ? sys-auth/pambase) net-misc

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
udisks +1 Google knows enough about it to lead you to the nirvana state of increased understanding. +1 very loosely: udisks needs polkit to check the current user is authorised to mount internal drives or usb drives (this threw me at first as there are two rules you need to assign) udisks

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

2014-09-29 Thread Stroller
On Mon, 29 September 2014, at 6:18 pm, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: … That many files want to come along to the party that I can't Shift PgUp back up through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't have any graphics installed yet. emerge tmux Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:32, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: /sbin/poweroff says Must be a superuser :( Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Also the use of sudo is another choice

[gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-07-01 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:13:49 +0100 Mick wrote: > So, I'm surmising, dbus calls in polkit & pam, since you're logged > in, which allows access to /sbin/shutdown. Thanks for the explanation. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 11:28 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Does user need to be in group:  plugdev for it to work. I'm fairly confident that you do, yes. "Udisks uses polkit to handle permissions. Make sure each user is in the plugdev group" https://wiki.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Jan 30 01:19:22 centurion polkitd[1614]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Jan 30 01:19:22 centurion polkitd[1614]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules Jan 30 01:19:22 centurion polkitd[1614]: Acquired the name

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

2016-12-09 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > Andrej Rode <m...@andrejro.de> writes: > >> Hi, >> >>> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" >>> [installed]) >>> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

2011-07-07 Thread pk
On 2011-07-06 17:37, john wrote: Any suggestions other than converting to e16? (which is becoming tempting). This seems to happen every upgrade of xfce4/polkit/dbus. polkit seems to me just another HAL... Try: http://wiki.xfce.org/tips Of course you still need to put: xfce4-user-session

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.06.2012 17:36, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Thanks to you I ran emerge -1 =polkit-0.105 =udisks-1.97.0-r1 and it works. Did that on my main workstation, here it works. On my thinkpad it doesn't work, I don't know why ... Gnome3 starts into a Oh no! Something has gone wrong. screen, ah

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
hotpluggable devices as normal user A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now try for a general solution. The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. That is a true general solution; otherwise you end up like the author of calibre, with a security mess

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
on the bug to freedesktop.org: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53905 It hits not only USB mounting; it also hits suspend/hibernate (I'm no longer allowed to suspend as user), setting up printers, and basically everything related to polkit. correct! Same stuff here ... additionally

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Keith Dart
Valdés said: You need to add this to /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask: sys-auth/polkit -systemd Then you will be able to use polkit with systemd, and consolekit will be expunged from your system Thanks a lot, that fixed it. Now it seems to work much better. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
without german umlauts or special characters to rule out charset-topics. No change. Do you have anything in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/? I only have 50-default.rules, which Gentoo adds. Same here. Also check /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d. These 2 files: # cat 01

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit and consolekit. You don't need those. It sounds like you somehow got both sysvinit and systemd installed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Matti Nykyri
/poweroff says Must be a superuser :( Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit and consolekit

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit and consolekit. Actually systemd's poweroff should be on /usr/bin or /bin but if you got it there you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
of the previous messages? They told you that you have to have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work! Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit and consolekit. Also the use of sudo is another choice. Sudo is just a package? Yes

[gentoo-user] Death of KDE-4?

2016-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today I noticed a large number of kde package files being fetched during my daily --sync, and then I got this in emerge -auDvU: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "sys-auth/polkit-qt[qt5]". !!! One of the following packages is required to com

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh Connection reset by port 22

2020-12-15 Thread cal
On 12/15/20 9:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/15/2020 07:53 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> During compiling -uavDN @world one of the package refuse to compile >> >> sys-auth/polkit-0.118::gentoo failed (configure phase): >>econf failed > [sn

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh Connection reset by port 22

2020-12-15 Thread thelma
On 12/15/2020 10:41 PM, cal wrote: > On 12/15/20 9:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 12/15/2020 07:53 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> During compiling -uavDN @world one of the package refuse to compile >>> >>> sys-auth/polkit-0.118::gentoo fa

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
aveat :) > Yes, I understood what you meant. I was just saying that I don't have most dependencies installed. > > > why would I need elogind, udisks, polkit, etc. just to read a comic book > or view a pdf? > > I do have elogind because sddm requires it (have been pondering if I &g

[gentoo-user] login fail after resuming from suspend

2010-11-30 Thread Andrey Vul
I forgot, is it a problem with consolekit or polkit that causes the login system to hang after resuming from acpi suspend? And is there a solution, apart from saving all work before standby and doing {Magic}+{R,S,E}? -- Andrey m05hbear Vul andrey at moshbear dot net andrey dot vul at gmail

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4 device detection

2011-05-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 May 2011 00:43:54 Nils Larsson wrote: lördagen den 28 maj 2011 00:54:42 skrev Neil Bothwick: That fails on the broken box with Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Yepp, thats the error. I vaugly recall doing a emerge -1 dbus polkit consolekit

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

2011-07-07 Thread jdm
: Rudmer van Dijk rudmer.van.d...@casema.nl Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:30:50 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues On Wednesday 06 July 2011 16:37:40 john wrote: Since a recent upgrade of polkit (I think) as a normal user

Re: [gentoo-user] failure to login with xdm or gdm

2012-06-09 Thread Thanasis
). With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going round and round. I have fixed the problem by downgrading polkit and udisks. Thanks :) (I had the same problem).

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
but a polkituser - what should I have? polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd

2012-10-29 Thread João Matos
I found the solution a few hours ago here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd#PAM_support:_su.2C_sudo.2C_screen... . Now everything is fine :) About the packages you mentioned, you've ran 'equery uses pambase polkit udisks upower', and none of them has the userflag systemd. Anyway, systemd

[gentoo-user] can not mount USB stick as user

2014-02-05 Thread Joseph
Which program is responsible for mounting USB stick on XFCE4? After enable systemd flag in make.conf USE= the following packages were rebuild: sys-apps/busybox sys-apps/dbus sys-auth/pambase sys-auth/polkit sys-fs/udisks sys-power/upower gnome-base/gvfs But now I have a BIG problem, I can

[gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-02 Thread Alarig Le Lay
ing USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-libs/elfutils-0.177::gentoo # required by virtual/libelf-3::gentoo # required by dev-libs/glib-2.60.7-r2::gentoo # required by gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r2::gentoo # require

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

2010-06-23 Thread dhk
On 04/23/2010 06:13 AM, Damian wrote: Damian damian.o...@gmail.com writes: Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried to do what is mentioned here: http://www.linuxquestions.org

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