On 18/01/21 11:20, Gerrit Kühn wrote:
Hello all,
I don't quite know where to take this, hopefully I'm not completely wrong
here.
I've just updated a couple of machines using xfce from 12.1 to 12.2. Most
work fine after the update, but one is slightly broken now. Here are
some issues I see: XCFE starts just fine but refuses for open the xfce
terminal (nothing happens). Also, logging out is not possible anymore
(desktop gets dark, but not logout selection appears).
As written in the subject, I think the main reason for this is that polkitd
isn't running. Sometimes I can see various error windows popping up
complaining about things that point into this direction, also ps doesn't
show a polkitd like on the systems that work fine.
In /var/log/messages I see the following error message from dbus:
---
Jan 18 10:58:57 beastie dbus-daemon[36795]: [system] Failed to activate
service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
(service_start_timeout=25000ms)
---
However, I'm unable to find out /why/ this happens and how to fix it. Any
hints?
Not easy to guess. Also, while I do work on xfce ports I know little
about polkit details. xfce uses it, but it's not part of xfce.
Some things you could check:
look into .xsession-errors, that's where output from user X11 session
goes, maybe you can find some hint there. Do expect various scary
warnings there, but most are really just noise.
Check if you have any core dumps from polkit laying around. I think the
root directory is the most likely place.
You could also try launching polkitd by hand as a user or as root and
see what it says It should also have a --debug flag.
Trying to reinstall it (via ports if using ports o with pkg upgrade -f
if using binary packages) could help. Same for it's requirements, I get:
> pkg info -d polkit-0.118
polkit-0.118:
expat-2.2.10
spidermonkey78-78.6.0_1
glib-2.66.4_1,1
gettext-runtime-0.21
dbus-1.12.20_3
So pkg upgrade -f (or rebuilding from ports if that's your method) for
all those is worth a try.
--
Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net>
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