On 14.03.2013 16:58, Kevin Locke wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 07:55 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On 14.03.2013 07:17, Kevin Locke wrote: >>> On a freshly-installed system running XFCE with LightDM, PolicyKit >>> >>> ~/.xsession-errors includes the following messages: >>> >>> ** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3382): WARNING **: Unable to >>> register authentication agent: >>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user >>> of subject >>> Cannot register authentication agent: >>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user >>> of subject >>> >>> Possibly a race condition? >> >> Dunno, I use neither lightdm nor XFCE and don't know how they start >> their desktop session. >> Is this problem reproducible with GNOME fallback / classic? > > The problem does not occur for me with GNOME fallback (installed from > the gnome-session-fallback package). Is policykit-1-gnome not > intended for use with XFCE? Since it was installed automatically as a > recommends of xfce4 (through gvfs), I assumed it was the one > recommended for XFCE. > > Additionally, I noticed that polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 does > reliably start on second and subsequent logins. It is only during the > first login (which is automatic as part of boot) that it fails. >
Thanks for testing. TBH, I have no idea as I don't test pk-gnome on non-GNOME environments. Maybe there is an issue with how xfce4-session set's up the D-Bus session bus. This needs someone though who knows XFCE, so I've CCed Yves-Alexis. Hopefully he can help you. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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