GNU bug report logs - #34788
Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 18:55:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 34788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
Cc: 34788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate
 "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 21:26:19 +0100

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Hi,

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 14:39:49 -0500 (EST)
Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us> wrote:

> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# cat c57y49r44086xi8lh12s192m2w26b0ba-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
> Exec=/gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
> User=root
> SystemdService=polkit.service
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# /gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# echo $?
> 1
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# cat fhsx7yznpywr9gsi5swp9hy3ldmp3agq-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
> Exec=/gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
> User=root
> SystemdService=polkit.service
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# /gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# echo $?
> 1
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store# ps -ef|grep polkit
> root       767   729  0 14:35 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto polkit
> root <at> lib-its13 /gnu/store#

Hmm, try strace /gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug >some_log_file.txt 2>&1

Maybe we can find what it doesn't like there...

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