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Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails

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Hi Tito,

Thanks for sharing your state! (And others for helpful replies - I'm
just answering this one for now.)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 02:43:36PM +0100, tito wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm on a sysvinit/elogind system too and have KDE and xfce4 installed.
> I use xfce4 as daily driver and everything works as expected.
> I have these polkit stuff installed:
> 
> apt list *polkit* | grep installed
> 
> gir1.2-polkit-1.0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libpolkit-agent-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libpolkit-gobject-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 all [installed]
> libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed]
> libpolkit-qt5-1-1/stable,now 0.114.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> polkit-kde-agent-1/stable,now 4:5.27.5-2 amd64 [installed]
> polkitd-pkla/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> polkitd/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic]

I guess you are on stable - I and, presumably the OP, experience this
issue on unstable boxes (and notably not on a box that I upgraded from
stable).

> /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop

Thanks. I also have this, but notably it is NOT running. This fatal
'warning' appears in session logs and if invoked by hand:

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:6713): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: 17:02:14.853: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 6713

> So I presume it is started early in the X startup process
> probably by the login manager itself (sddm in my case).

Note that the display manager (lightdm) also does not offer
shutdown options - so that too presumably failed to start an agent.

With the gnome agent deprecated clearly that is an issue in its own right!

I just substitued lxagent. That produces the same error but is actually
still running. Elevation is still not possible.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-14 22:20 +0100
  Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-14 23:30 +0100
    Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-14 23:50 +0100
      Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-16 18:50 +0100
        Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-16 22:50 +0100
          Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-17 08:40 +0100
        Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-17 01:10 +0100
          Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-17 09:30 +0100
            Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 12:00 +0100
              Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails tito <farmatito@tiscali.it> - 2024-12-17 14:50 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-17 19:00 +0100
              Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net> - 2024-12-17 15:10 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 20:10 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 21:30 +0100
              Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-17 17:50 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-17 20:20 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 21:00 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-18 11:20 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-18 19:40 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-18 20:10 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2024-12-18 21:00 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2024-12-19 11:00 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-01-07 20:40 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Thorsten Glaser <tg@evolvis.org> - 2025-01-07 21:40 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2025-01-08 08:40 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-01-08 10:00 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> - 2025-01-08 10:30 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.org.uk> - 2024-12-17 21:40 +0100
                Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 20:20 +0100

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