Package: xscreensaver Version: 6.02+dfsg1-2 Hi,
I enabled the xscreensaver user service, but noticed that it fails to start xscreensaver-systemd. In the log I could only find: Jan 05 19:22:58 hostname xscreensaver[4360]: xscreensaver-systemd: 19:22:58: inhibit sleep failed: Permission denied Jan 05 19:22:58 hostname xscreensaver[4354]: xscreensaver: 19:22:58: pid 4360: xscreensaver-systemd exited unexpectedly with status 1 Figuring out what was going wrong was a bit difficult. strace didn't really reveal anything that had been denied. dbus-monitor also didn't contain anything obvious. After some time I found out that I need to install polkitd for it to work properly. After installing it, it automagically worked, my user now has permissions to start xscreensaver-systemd. Maybe you can add polkitd to Suggests, or document somewhere that it is needed for xscreensaver-systemd. Kind regards, Reiner