Bug#827756: Cannot enable lingering without policykit-1

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Mon Jun 20 16:05:13 BST 2016


On 20 June 2016 at 10:49, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx at thregr.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 230-2
> Severity: normal
> File: /bin/loginctl
>
> On a test system I tried to enable lingering for an user, but got the
> following:
>
> $ loginctl enable-linger Could not enable linger: The name
> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
>
> I guess systemd should now Recommend policykit-1 as well.

Recommends is a bit too strong. You can still use most of systemd
without policykit, and even enable lingering if you run it as root.

But I think Suggests is appropriate.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler




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