[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#703016: Bug#703016: policykit-1-gnome: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 fails to start

[Kevin Locke]

Just a quick update to this bug for XFCE 4.10:

The underlying bug (that polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 fails to
start) is still present, but the symptoms have changed a bit.
Mounting an internal drive no longer causes an error (I think this is
because org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal is now
allow_active instead of auth_admin_keep - but I could be wrong.)
Additionally I noticed that panel buttons for Shutdown/Restart appear
as grayed out (but shutting down from the Logout dialog box works -
presumably because it checks permissions when shown).

With a bit more digging this afternoon I discovered that if I replace
/usr/bin/xfce4-session with a shell script that sleeps for 1 second
then calls the original xfce4-session, it works reliably.  This could
be a red herring, but it is 100% reliable on my system (so far).

Hope that helps.

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