[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#765346: Bug#765346: Authentication error due to missing polkit agent

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.2.9-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> ever since upgrading libvirt* to 1.2.9* I am running into the following error
> when trying to connect:
> 
>   $ virsh connect qemu:///system
>   error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
>   error: authentication failed: no agent is available to authenticate
> 
> This is, presumably, due to the changes introduced to the authentication system
> introduced in da11813 [0], but I am not sure how to ensure that an agent is
> started properly. My user is, naturally, a member of the expected groups:
> 
>   $ groups
>   [...] libvirt [...]

Which is used in

/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/60-libvirt.rules

> and polkitd is running properly:
> 
>   $ ps aux|grep polkitd
>   root      2072  0.1  0.0 280140  7640 ?        Ssl  12:49   0:00
>   /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
> 
> I can reproduce this error under both i3 and Gnome and therefore don't
> necessarily think that it is due to the way my session is being loaded, but
> could very well be due to me not having installed all necessary packages to
> ensure that libvirt is able to properly authenticate via polkit.
> 
> Would you, dear maintainer, be aware of anything that I might like to try to get
> libvirt 1.2.9 running on sid?
> 
> [0] Use polkit instead of socket permissions.  As before membership
>     in the libvirt group gives r/w access to all VMs

What version of polkit is running on your system? What's the output of pkaction?

Cheers,
 -- Guido