Package: policykit-1-gnome Version: 0.105-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
On a freshly-installed system running XFCE with LightDM, PolicyKit authentication prompts are not presented for actions which require authentication. For example, attempting to mount an internal drive (which is configured auth_admin_keep) results in "Failed to mount X: Authentication is required" without prompting for authentication. The cause appears to be that polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not running. If I launch polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 from an xterm, it runs without error and authentication dialogs are presented. I can confirm that /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop is intact and unchanged and that there is no entry in ~/.config/autostart/ which would override it. ~/.xsession-errors includes the following messages: ** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3382): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject Possibly a race condition? Let me know if there is anything I can do to help track this down further. Cheers, Kevin -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.8.2-kevinoid1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages policykit-1-gnome depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-6 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-3 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-3 ii policykit-1 0.105-3 policykit-1-gnome recommends no packages. policykit-1-gnome suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
