Package: policykit-1-gnome Version: 0.105-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I happen to run my system with /proc mounted with hidepid=2 for security reasons. I tried starting polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 as well as mate-polkit and they both failed (I use awesome window manager, so I need to start the auth agent manually). Further investigation/sleuthing led me to discover that hidepid=2 breaks PolicyKit (it supposedly also breaks systemd-logind, but I haven't had any trouble with that yet...maybe that's been fixed?). This seems to be completely undocumented, as I ended up discovering this on a random forum. Am I missing something or is this completely undocumented? And if it is undocumented, can we put a note in the package description or in the README? Alternatively, is there a workaround for this and can we document that somewhere? Sincerely, Chiraag -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.11-chiraag (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages policykit-1-gnome depends on: ii libc6 2.27-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.0-4 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.29-2 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.113-6 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.113-6 ii policykit-1 0.113-6 policykit-1-gnome recommends no packages. policykit-1-gnome suggests no packages.