[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1076506: polkitd: Strange polkit related error upgrading to bookworm

[Andreas Tille]

Package: polkitd
Severity: important

Hi,

sorry for the extremely weak bug report since I do not have access to
the machine in question any more but it should be reported anyway.
Today I upgaded some laptop I maintain for someone else from bullseye to
bookworm.  I was running into exactly the same problem as dscribed here:

   https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=156286

and the suggested solution

adduser --system --group polkitd
adduser root polkitd

dpkg --configure polkitd
dpkg --configure -a

worked for me as well.  It seems the lxde environment needs polkitd
which I can hardly reproduce on my own hardware since I do not use it
here.  So sorry again for the weak bug report but I think this issue is
serios enough to make some noise about.  With better information I
would have set severity to serious since it breaks upgrades.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining polkitd
    Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-arm64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.134
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-1~deb12u1
ii  libc6                           2.36-9+deb12u4
pn  libduktape207                   <none>
ii  libexpat1                       2.5.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.74.6-2
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]         252.22-1~deb12u1
ii  libpam0g                        1.5.2-6+deb12u1
pn  libpolkit-agent-1-0             <none>
pn  libpolkit-gobject-1-0           <none>
ii  libsystemd0                     252.22-1~deb12u1
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      252.22-1~deb12u1
ii  xml-core                        0.18+nmu1

polkitd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages polkitd suggests:
pn  polkitd-pkla  <none>