On Fri, Jun 08 2012, walt wrote: > On 06/08/2012 06:39 AM, walt wrote: >> I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is >> badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but >> I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. >> >> The symptom 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 of udisks from 1.97.0 to 1.98.0. > > 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 have different systems (X / gdm) doesn't start, but also have the new polkit. My main system with the older polkit 105 does work. There are bug reports on polkit, e.g. 42013. Thanks to you I ran emerge -1 =polkit-0.105 =udisks-1.97.0-r1 and it works. thanks for the headsup! allan
