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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.05.2014 17:15, schrieb 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

And please don't login as root and use su to start the X session, but
login as your regular user and then run startx, so the session is
properly tracked.

Michael


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