On 22.11.2012 19:27, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 22.11.2012 17:41, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 22.11.2012 14:03, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote:
>>> Hi Michael!
>>>
>>> On 22/11/2012 00:16, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> cinnamon does not provide an own, integrated polkit agent, like e.g. 
>>>> gnome-shell or KDE4.
>>>
>>> Unless I have completely misinterpreted the cinnamon source code, it
>>> does provide its own integrated policykit agent which is actually the
>>> forked version of gnome-shell (src/cinnamon-polkit-authentication-agent.c).
>>>
>>> The dependence of cinnamon against libpolkit-agent-1-0 and
>>> libpolkit-gobject-1-0 suggests this as well.
>>>
>>> That's said, you are more expert than me about it. Please provide me a
>>> little bit more detail if I am wrong.
>>
>> All I can tell you is, that when being logged into a cinnamon session, I
>> get the polkit auth dialogs from policykit-1-gnome
>> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1) and
>> /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is running.
> 
> So, the problem is not that cinnamon requires policykit-1-gnome but
> rather polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 being started under cinnamon
> when it shouldn't.

Problem is this
polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop:
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome

Since cinnamon uses gnome-session but a different session name then
gnome, such services will be autostarted.

polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not the only service being
affected by this.


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