On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 22:37:25 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > <https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/set1s1/gdbuserrororgfreedesktoppolicykit1errorfailed_no/> > > following this thread I installed policykit-gnome and policykit-mate but > still misses the mark with a similar error msg: > > gene@bpi51e5p:~$ synaptic-pkexec > ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === > Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager > Authenticating as: Gene Heskett,,, (gene) > Password: > polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie > ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === > Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
Looks like the same error, or close enough. hobbit:~$ apt-cache show policykit-mate N: Unable to locate package policykit-mate E: No packages found I have no idea what you actually installed, or what you did with it. hobbit:~$ apt-cache search --names-only polkit [...] mate-polkit - MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 [...] hobbit:~$ apt-cache show mate-polkit [...] Description-en: MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 The mate-polkit package provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges. . This package contains the MATE policy kit authentication agent. Is that what you installed? And you simply butchered the name when you copied it into the email? Or does your system have a completely different set of packages because it's not actually Debian? In any case, I have no idea what you have to do to make it run.
