I found the problem. It was actually due to policykit-1 being completely broken on my system. pkaction returned zero results, instead of listing all available actions. I eventually found out that for some reason (probably due to upgrading ubuntu in-place) I was missing files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/ and /etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d/. Both of those directories were completely empty on my system.
As a result, policykit-1 never even loaded the files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and was not aware of any actions at all. I did some searching and added the following files as they apparently should have been: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf: [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-user:0 /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-ubuntu-admin.conf: [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-grou:admin /etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d/50-nullbackend.conf: [Configuration] Priority=-10 After rebooting, jockey-gtk works fine. Also, it fixed my problem of not being able to access the Permissions window in the Users Admin panel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/703151 Title: jockey-gtk fails to start with PermissionDeniedByPolicy exception -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
