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

[Kevin Locke]

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.

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