[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797368: policykit-1: Install fails with Error calling StartServiceByName

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-11
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I installed strech with d-i alpha 2 with no task selected in tasksel.  After
booting into the system, I tried to install packages which depend on
policykit-1 and they throw the following error.  Installation hangs or
errors out with many packages failing during configuration stage.

Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was
reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
Failed to execute operation: Connection timed out

This is very similar to the Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1436448

In my case the package I am trying to install is freedombox-setup which tries
to install policykit-1 via other packages such as avahi and firewalld.

The workaround suggested on the bug report worked.  First if I install
policykit-1 then reboot and after that if I install my packages, it works
without any problem.

I can gather and provide any further information required or try out fixes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.8.20-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-19
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.44.1-1.1
ii  libpam-systemd         224-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-11
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-11
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-11

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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