I think I know what's going on: Unpacking apport (2.19.1-0ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package policykit-1. Preparing to unpack .../policykit-1_0.105-11ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking policykit-1 (0.105-11ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for systemd (225-1ubuntu9) ... Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
The systemd trigger does a "systemctl daemon-reload". But at this point policykit-1 is merely unpacked, but *not* configured yet. There is a /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf.dpkg-new, which isn't yet "active", so polkit has no D-Bus policy and can't start. This does not trigger with only installing policykit-1 as that has no /etc/init.d/* and thus does not activate systemd's package trigger. So this happens if you install policykit-1 together with some package which ships an /etc/init.d/ script. This will become much simpler once we can ship D-Bus policies in /usr. However, we need to wait with that until dbus 1.10 is in an LTS, i. e. we can rely on having "policies in /usr" support for an upgrade; otherwise we'll break upgrades. Until then, we need to disallow polkit startup while the package is unconfigured. This could happen by the preinst doing "ln -s /dev/null /run/systemd/system/polkitd.service" and the postinst removing that link again. ** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High ** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Vivid) Importance: Medium => High ** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** No longer affects: systemd (Ubuntu Vivid) ** No longer affects: systemd (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1447654 Title: installing policykit-1 hangs under systemd Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in policykit-1 source package in Vivid: Triaged Status in policykit-1 package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: I've installed 15.04 using the current amd64 netboot.tar.gz (MD5 = 6566065bf73a9c81feeddf5520dda122). It installs fine, but I'm getting errors installing packages (such as lubuntu-core). Last few lines from apt-get: Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu3) ... Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24) Failed to execute operation: Connection timed out dpkg: error processing package systemd (--unpack): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.44.0-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for udev (219-7ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.12-1ubuntu5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: systemd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've done a second install using the server iso and lubuntu-core installs fine on that. The only thing different was my install media. SRU INFORMATION =============== Test case: - Boot a minimal VM and purge "apport policykit-1", or do the above netboot installation. - sudo apt-get install policykit-1 apport - The above hangs on the systemd triggers and eventually fails in vivid final. It should succeed fine with this update. Regression potential: Very low: polkitd does not keep state, so one can restart it fine. The postinst shell modification is simple and obvious. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1447654/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp