Re jqsvb2$3a0$1@dough.gmane.orgjqsvb2$3a0$1...@dough.gmane.org, walt said: > For reasons I don't know, the polkit daemon wasn't actually running. > Dunno if it failed to start or somebody forgot to start it. Either > way the system was broken, so I'll let the experts figure it out. >
I had the same problem. I figured out what it was. :) This new polkitd creates a new psuedo-user named polkitd. It sets this with a home directory of /dev/null. which is usually fine. But polkitd attempts to chdir to that home directory when it starts, and of course fails since it's not a directory. So it bails. My quick and dirty solution was to change it's home directory to /var/empty. polkitd:x:122:987:added by portage for polkit:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin Now it will start. That's probably not the best place since it is actually used by and installed by sshd, but it works if you also have sshd installed. Or you can just make it. Now, my next project is to get rid of gnome... -- Keith -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> public key: ID: 19017044 <http://www.dartworks.biz/> =====================================================================
