[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#747105: Bug#747105: policykit-1: depends on systemd - breaks libpolkit-backend

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.05.2014 15:32, schrieb Woody:
> Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> Woody wrote:
>>> I see also a broken behaviour. I am doing a dual boot - with and
>>> without systemd.
>>> Till the libpolkit-backend has been linked against systemd, it has
>>> worked just fine.
>>>
>>> The problem is now that backend is trying to blindly use systemd, and
>>> fails if systemd is not running as init. With that change the user
>>> authentication for network-manager or pcmanfm mounting are broken -
>>> there is just a pcmanfm msgbox "Not Authorized".
>>>
>>> So *libpolkit-backend should first try to verify if systemd is an
>>> init program, and if not - do not try to use it for authentication* -
>>> it will definitely fail - so there is no point doing so.
>>>
>>> I understand that running without systemd is not a typical Debian
>>> installation, but dependence on systemd should not be a mandatory for
>>> Debian breaking everything either.
>> The only thing that policykit expects is a registered logind session
>> (you can use loginctl command to check if it exists), not systemd as
>> PID1. Moreover, network-manager also using logind for session tracking
>> since 0.9.8.8-1.
>>
> My point is that if I overwrite the libpolkit-backend 1.0.5-5 with the
> .so from 1.0.5-4 - the network manager and pcmanfm manage to
> authenticate (probably using consolekit)
>>> It is an important bug.
>> Could you please check if you have a logind session registered. Also
>> which DM are you using to login?
> Laurent, no DM. Imagine an embedded system starting X first, asking
> questions (and services ;-0) later...  Here is the logincmd data :
> 
> /woody> loginctl list-sessions
>    SESSION        UID USER             SEAT
>         c1       1000 user             seat0
> 
> 1 sessions listed.
> 
>  /woody> loginctl session-status c1
> c1 - user (1000)
>            Since: Mon 2014-05-19 12:41:21 EDT; 5 days ago
>           Leader: 1475 (su)
>             Seat: seat0; vc1
>              TTY: /dev/tty1
>           Remote: user root
>          Service: su; type tty; class user
>            State: online
>           CGroup: systemd:/user/1000.user/c1.session

If you are using startx, you need to start the X session on the same tty
as the one you logged in.

E.g.
startx -- vt01 (in case your logged in on tty1)


[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747882
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806491

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