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

[Michael Biebl]

On 14.03.2013 16:58, Kevin Locke wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 07:55 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 14.03.2013 07:17, Kevin Locke wrote:
>>> On a freshly-installed system running XFCE with LightDM, PolicyKit
>>>
>>> ~/.xsession-errors includes the following messages:
>>>
>>> ** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3382): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject
>>> Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject
>>>
>>> Possibly a race condition?
>>
>> Dunno, I use neither lightdm nor XFCE and don't know how they start
>> their desktop session.
>> Is this problem reproducible with GNOME fallback / classic?
> 
> The problem does not occur for me with GNOME fallback (installed from
> the gnome-session-fallback package).  Is policykit-1-gnome not
> intended for use with XFCE?  Since it was installed automatically as a
> recommends of xfce4 (through gvfs), I assumed it was the one
> recommended for XFCE.
> 
> Additionally, I noticed that polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 does
> reliably start on second and subsequent logins.  It is only during the
> first login (which is automatic as part of boot) that it fails.
> 

Thanks for testing. TBH, I have no idea as I don't test pk-gnome on
non-GNOME environments.
Maybe there is an issue with how xfce4-session set's up the D-Bus
session bus. This needs someone though who knows XFCE, so I've CCed
Yves-Alexis. Hopefully he can help you.

Michael

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