[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1076728: elogind: privileged operation with polkit fails

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Dec 17 20:22:32 GMT 2024


On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 19:02:19 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 1. there is no polkit authentication agent that is part of the XFCE
>    project and is packaged in Debian;
> 
> 2. installing XFCE doesn't really guarantee to provide someone else's
>    polkit authentication agent, either;

I've opened a separate bug against the xfce4 metapackage asking for it
to add a dependency on some suitable polkit agent implementation, which
would solve this part of the issue (but would not solve any possible
elogind-specific issue that might also be happening).

    smcv



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