When I did a reboot the console-kit-daemon started clean. After that I tried running the polkitd as root and then users-admin for the user over VNC. Here what comes for the users-admin:
Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch- helper: Success And then for polkitd: # /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd Registering null backend at priority -10 Using authority class PolkitBackendLocalAuthority (process:3480): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "-1" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `pid' of type `gint' ** (process:3480): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.353 is inquiring whether unix-process:3503:47162 is authorized for org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set ** (process:3480): DEBUG: user of caller is unix-user:mlavi ** (process:3480): DEBUG: user of subject is unix-user:mlavi ** (process:3480): DEBUG: checking whether unix-process:3503:47162 is authorized for org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_description> at line 11 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_message> at line 12 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_description> at line 12 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_message> at line 13 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_description> at line 21 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_message> at line 22 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_description> at line 30 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_message> at line 31 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_description> at line 39 ** (process:3480): WARNING **: skipping unknown tag <_message> at line 40 ** (process:3480): DEBUG: (nil) ** (process:3480): DEBUG: not authorized ** (process:3480): DEBUG: -- D-BUS activation fails to start console-kit-daemon with error: "Success" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs