Package: polkitd
Version: 126-2
Severity: minor
Steps to replicate:
1. sudo systemctl restart polkit.service
2. sudo journalctl -ru polkit.service
3. observe the messages for the latest restart
Observed:
Error opening rules directory: Error opening directory
“/usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d”: No such file or directory (g-file-error-
quark, 4)
Error opening rules directory: Error opening directory “/run/polkit-1/rules.d”:
No such file or directory (g-file-error-quark, 4)
Expected:
(those messages should not appear)
The correct solution is a policy question, and I'm not sure what parts are
for you vs. upstream, but here are some possibilities:
/run/polkit-1/rules.d is in a tmpfs, so can't be created at install-time.
Adding this to the [Service] section of /usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service
would solve the problem, and I would argue is the right solution:
RuntimeDirectory=polkit-1
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir ${RUNTIME_DIRECTORY}/rules.d
Obviously that only works under systemd, though.
/usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d is in /usr/local, so Debian should ignore it.
#1010228 suggests that directory should still be supported in Debian,
so should upstream create the directory somehow?
I have an upstream PR awaiting review to change these to priority 4 (warning):
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/536
If it's better not to create the directories, it makes sense to
downgrade the messages to info level instead. Let me know if that's better -
I'll update the PR and link back here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii adduser 3.137
ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.16.0-1
ii libc6 2.40-6
ii libduktape207 2.7.0-2+b2
ii libexpat1 2.6.4-1
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.82.4-2
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 257.2-3
ii libpam0g 1.5.3-7+b1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 126-2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libsystemd0 257.2-3
ii systemd [systemd-sysusers] 257.2-3
ii xml-core 0.19
polkitd recommends no packages.
polkitd suggests no packages.
Versions of packages polkitd is related to:
pn elogind <none>
pn libpam-elogind <none>
ii libpam-systemd 257.2-3
ii systemd 257.2-3
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