Bug#754495: polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 does not start

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: close -1

Hi Richard,

On  Fr 11 Jul 2014 20:31:42 CEST, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Package: mate-polkit
> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-4
>
> At startup polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 fails to start,  
> logging the following message in .xsession-errors:
>
> Cannot register authentication agent:  
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot  
> determine user of subject
>
> Running it manually has the same result.
>
>
> Subsequent attempt to run programs that require elevated privilege  
> (e.g. Synaptic from the Administration menu) fail with this message:
>
> Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current  
> controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or  
> address
>
>
> (I don't know how this stuff is supposed to work so this is only  
> really a guess that these two things are connected.)
>
> This seems to work in the backported version of MATE but not in unstable.
>
> Full .xsession-errors from a minimal session attached.
>

Within the last months I sometimes peaked at my xsession-errors log  
file and was not able to see such an issue (and I am using mate-polkit  
in a full MATE session and under i3 window manager).

I will close your bug report, as I could not reproduce your issue  
since your reported it. Also: your xsession-errors shows some really  
peculiar messages, as if you are using a very weird Xserver underneath  
MATE.

light+love,
Mike
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