I noticed that I had a console-kit-daemon process running so I killed that. This was before I uninstalled policykit for this test. After uninstalling policykit (libpolkit2 still installed), I was unable to start the console-kit-daemon process from a "sudo -s" shell. The same error message was appearing in syslog each time I tried to start the process.
Oct 7 09:26:53 ubuntu console-kit-daemon[20399]: CRITICAL: cannot initialize libpolkit After reinstalling policykit, the console-kit-daemon process started fine. -- console-kit-daemon[13695]: CRITICAL: cannot initialize libpolkit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275432 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs