consolekit makes trouble

May 29th, 2011 - 04:20 am ET by Hans-J. Ullrich | Report spam
Hello list,

I am really despaired! Due to a defective RAM, my /usr was corrupted, and so I
had to reinstall the system from scratch. I installed debian/testing
completely new (except /home, which is on a separate partition). As I am
courious, I saved my package list by dpkg --get-selections > package.txt, and
after the fresh installation, I could reinstall them again. I did this with
the command: apt-get install $(cut -f1 package.txt), which worked fine.

But after that, I got a problem, and now working for hours to solve it:

As I am using kdm (and kde), I get an error:

kdm: :0[21175]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed
to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Succes

I can click it away, and I can use kde without any trouble.

Ok, to see, what hapend, I examined the log and found more information:

May 29 09:33:43 localhost console-kit-daemon[22438]: WARNING:
polkit_authority_get: Error getting authority: Error initializing authority:
Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute
program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success


So it looks like, there might be some authorization problem. I googled a lot,
but found no usefull hints. Somebody solved it, by "unmerging glib-
networking", but that was in gentoo.

I will be very happy, if someone could help me, as I there is not much
information about consolekit and dbus to find.

Thank you very much for any help.

Best regards

Hans-J. Ullrich


P.S. Sorry, if I sent this wrong, debian-user@lists.debian.org claimed my e-
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#1 Camale
May 29th, 2011 - 05:50 am ET | Report spam
On Sun, 29 May 2011 10:10:06 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

(...)

But after that, I got a problem, and now working for hours to solve it:

As I am using kdm (and kde), I get an error:

kdm: :0[21175]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session:
Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper:
Succes



(...)

A quick googling returns this bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugY1618

So check the gid of the involved user (messagebus) as suggested in #20.

Greetings,

Camaleón


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