On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 09:21 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: > > > On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > >>> On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: > >>>> Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. > >>> Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in > >>> /etc/passwd? > >>> > >>> Philipp > >>> > >>> > >> Not polkitd but a polkituser - what should I have? > >> > >> polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin > >> > > > > I run ~amd64, there was a bug that the polkitd user was created with > > invalid home and then politd or some other server could not be > > run. Re-emerging the package some time later showed a message how to > > fix it. No idea about polkituser though, can't find anything about > > that. > > Check out https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420269 > > I am currently running 0.106-r7, which has backed out most of the > problems. There was trouble with users polkitd and adm. Now with -r7 I > was able to remove my workarounds and have > > adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/bin/false > polkitd:x:110:998:added by portage for polkit:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nologin > > in /etc/passwd. > > hth, > allan >
ahh, I have polkit-104-r1 ... looks like an upgrade is in order. Job for tomorrow morning. Thanks Alan and Alex. BillK
