Hello My experience with autostart of polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in xfce4/lightdm is the same. But, now i can not reproduce the bug.
What i did 1) Go App Menu -> Settings -> Setings Manager -> Sessions and Startup -> Autostart 2) Add new item sleep 2s && /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 3) Logout-login - it works. 4) Then - I disabled this new item, logout-login - still works 5) Reboot - works 6) Delete that rule complety - relogin/reboot about 5 times - it works. Supermouse, can you check this algorithm? (But, first of all, put the default "Xfce" theme in "Appearence", some gtk2 user themes are buggy) aptitude search '?installed(policykit)' -F "%v %p" 0.112-4 policykit-1 0.105-2 policykit-1-gnome Best Regards, Dmitri