Bug#850855: [rtkit] rtkit daemon fails to start

[Bogdan Vatra]

Package: rtkit
Version: 0.11-4
Severity: important

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This bug is pretty annoying because it makes pulseaudio unusable (see 
#850806).

Here are the logs:
bogdan at zmeu:~$ sudo systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service
● rtkit-daemon.service - RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service; disabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-01-10 20:54:59 EET; 5min 
ago
 Main PID: 17917 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

ian 10 20:54:59 zmeu systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service...
ian 10 20:54:59 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=203/EXEC
ian 10 20:54:59 zmeu systemd[1]: Failed to start RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service.
ian 10 20:54:59 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Unit entered failed 
state.
ian 10 20:54:59 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
bogdan at zmeu:~$ sudo systemctl start rtkit-daemon.service 
Job for rtkit-daemon.service failed because the control process exited with 
error code.
See "systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
bogdan at zmeu:~$ sudo systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service
● rtkit-daemon.service - RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service; disabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-01-10 21:00:32 EET; 10s 
ago
  Process: 19342 ExecStart=/usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon (code=exited, status=1/
FAILURE)
 Main PID: 19342 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service...
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: Failed to start RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Unit entered failed 
state.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
bogdan at zmeu:~$ sudo journalctl -xe
ian 10 21:00:16 zmeu systemd[1]: Reloading.
ian 10 21:00:16 zmeu systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 5h 21min 32.698921s 
random time.
ian 10 21:00:16 zmeu sudo[19309]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:23 zmeu sudo[19328]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service
ian 10 21:00:23 zmeu sudo[19328]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)
ian 10 21:00:23 zmeu sudo[19328]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:27 zmeu sudo[19331]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl stop rtkit-daemon.service
ian 10 21:00:27 zmeu sudo[19331]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)
ian 10 21:00:27 zmeu sudo[19331]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:28 zmeu sudo[19334]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service
ian 10 21:00:28 zmeu sudo[19334]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)
ian 10 21:00:28 zmeu sudo[19334]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu sudo[19339]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl start rtkit-daemon.service
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu sudo[19339]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service...
-- Subject: Unit rtkit-daemon.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit rtkit-daemon.service has begun starting up.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu rtkit-daemon[19342]: Failed to connect to system bus: 
Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No su
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu rtkit-daemon[19342]: Demoting known real-time threads.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu rtkit-daemon[19342]: Demoted 0 threads.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: Failed to start RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy 
Service.
-- Subject: Unit rtkit-daemon.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit rtkit-daemon.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Unit entered failed 
state.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
ian 10 21:00:32 zmeu sudo[19339]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:43 zmeu sudo[19348]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status rtkit-daemon.service
ian 10 21:00:43 zmeu sudo[19348]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)
ian 10 21:00:43 zmeu sudo[19348]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
ian 10 21:00:52 zmeu sudo[19351]:   bogdan : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/home/bogdan ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/journalctl -xe
ian 10 21:00:52 zmeu sudo[19351]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by bogdan(uid=0)


--- System information. ---
Architecture: 
Kernel:       Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64

Debian Release: stretch/sid
  500 unstable-debug  deb.debian.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.debian.org 
  500 stable          repo.skype.com 
  500 stable          dl.google.com 

--- Package information. ---
Depends           (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-============
adduser                     | 3.115
libc6              (>= 2.8) | 
libcap2         (>= 1:2.10) | 
libdbus-1-3     (>= 1.9.14) | 


Recommends       (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
dbus                       | 1.10.14-1
policykit-1                | 0.105-17


Package's Suggests field is empty.