[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#670093: Bug#670093: policykit-1: console-kit-daemon tries to call CheckAuthorization for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority

[Michael Biebl]

On 22.04.2012 22:54, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Package: policykit-1
> Version: 0.104-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I am still a bit lost with *kit stuff. I am unsure if this bugs is in
> console-kit or in policy-kit. Please, reassign as needed. I have
> assigned the bug to policy-kit because there is nothing in the source
> code of console-kit that call the culprit method. I suppose that
> console-kit relies on a lib provided by policy-kit.
> 
> Here is my error message:
> 
> Apr 22 21:51:39 xbmc dbus-daemon[1008]: dbus[1008]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=1104 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") interface="org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority" member="CheckAuthorization" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.127" (uid=0 pid=7563 comm="/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug ")
> 
> So, console-kit-daemon running as root tries to invoke some method of
> polkitd running as root. And it is denied. I suppose there is
> something missing in dbus configuration provided by policykit. There
> are authorizations for
> "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.AuthenticationAgent" but not for
> "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority".
> 

Sounds like an application in your desktop session requested special
(admin) privileges, but you don't have a policykit authentication agent
running in your session.

what kind of desktop are you using?

Michael


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