On 22.04.2012 22:54, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Package: policykit-1 > Version: 0.104-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am still a bit lost with *kit stuff. I am unsure if this bugs is in > console-kit or in policy-kit. Please, reassign as needed. I have > assigned the bug to policy-kit because there is nothing in the source > code of console-kit that call the culprit method. I suppose that > console-kit relies on a lib provided by policy-kit. > > Here is my error message: > > Apr 22 21:51:39 xbmc dbus-daemon[1008]: dbus[1008]: [system] Rejected send > message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=1104 > comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") > interface="org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority" member="CheckAuthorization" > error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.127" (uid=0 pid=7563 > comm="/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug ") > > So, console-kit-daemon running as root tries to invoke some method of > polkitd running as root. And it is denied. I suppose there is > something missing in dbus configuration provided by policykit. There > are authorizations for > "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.AuthenticationAgent" but not for > "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority". >
Sounds like an application in your desktop session requested special (admin) privileges, but you don't have a policykit authentication agent running in your session. what kind of desktop are you using? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
