Danny and Guix, On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
is that on a standalone Guix system or on another distribution?
standalone Guix system
Please try to find a file named "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service" in /gnu/store and then find a line like the following in it: Exec=/gnu/store/xfysy3c824m4z8b07sbiangp7i2xfh6s-polkit-0.113/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug Then please try to invoke that polkitd manually as root. Does it also fail?
I have many org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service files in my store. I tred the Exec line from two of them manually as root, and they also failed silently. Here is a an exerpt from my session:
root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# find . -iname 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service' ./4nxdlw9jj03inwvqs85bvlibmsxcndih-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./xhr56s8ayycsdyyy5mfb4r2j1qsm9ca7-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./5naf5pps59jwllzq63y7qgkmfvx3g5c9-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./fhsx7yznpywr9gsi5swp9hy3ldmp3agq-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./wsypapfwsz7h1bkkx83smjjrmaxgpfyw-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./agrvhlrl5q69lc83c3ns9gmydisdijjz-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./diwy3wlmq8nhyzm7v70kcjny3lrdsfmw-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./zab72xhxdrcnfx1vdwkwfhfj4n0pwcwz-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./jc37c1k9kywwyz7fz2sj5r4dlv1z0jf0-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./19cyxhdcv27az62dswbwm9f5k9y0w9ng-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./kwpslvrhn37hpmsdjnrvdhdmwskkm35x-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./1fd1ys2ivs1cxh60ic6n7rmmnjfp1fyb-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./23nk0i4nncvxx5ah139ai82diqqgg5d9-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./y41zsmfvyfdf333a2d50s925kshjnf2r-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ./c57y49r44086xi8lh12s192m2w26b0ba-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service ^C root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# cat c57y49r44086xi8lh12s192m2w26b0ba-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service [D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 Exec=/gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug User=root SystemdService=polkit.service root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# /gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# echo $? 1 root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# cat fhsx7yznpywr9gsi5swp9hy3ldmp3agq-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service [D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 Exec=/gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug User=root SystemdService=polkit.service root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# /gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# echo $? 1 root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# ps -ef|grep polkit root 767 729 0 14:35 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto polkit root@lib-its13 /gnu/store#
