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

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:10:30PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 15:03 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:59:01PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 14:19 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> 
> > O.k. The file moves to /usr/share with the next upload. Sorry about
> > that. Could you update to polkit from experimental and check if this
> > fixes your problem?
> 
> Interestingly enough the behaviour now differs between my Gnome session and my
> i3 one after having installed the aforementioned packages from experimental.
> Whereas I still get the same error in i3 the connection attempt just hangs in
> Gnome for both virsh connect and virt-manager.

Did you upgrade libpolkit-agent-1-0 as well? I have uploaded a new
version that should work with libpolkit-agent-1-0 and policykit-1 from
jessie/sid.

> Is there any better way to provide more explicit debug logs about this process
> than what I have been running so far? It is rather annoying that all I can say
> is "hangs" and a more informed approach would be great.

Try to check for the DBus messages. I had a similar behaviour with
GNOME recently but that went a way after a dist-upgrade so I couldn't
figure out what triggered it.

That said I've checked with polkit 105 and 112 now and it should work
so if it doesn't try to catch the dbus messages using dbus-monitor.
Cheers,
 -- Guido