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

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu Mar 14 16:23:31 UTC 2013


On jeu., 2013-03-14 at 17:08 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 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.

Xfce doesn't recommend policykit, it recommends gvfs because we don't
really have a choice, actually.
> > 
> > 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.

I'll try to setup a default install and looks at it.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis



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