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Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-strong-list <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34788: closed (Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate
 "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1")
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:25:01 +0000

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From: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate
 "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:54:43 -0500 (EST)

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Hi Guix,

Today I noticed that I'm having trouble starting a GNOME session. If I'm 
using GDM, GDM also fails to start. If slim, then slim starts, but bringing 
up the GNOME session fails.

In /var/log/gdm/greeter.log I see "(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open 
virtual console 7 (Permission denied)"

In /var/log/messages I see "gdm: gdm_session_set_environment_variable: 
assertion 'value != NULL' failed"

and "debus-daemon[598]: [system] Activated service 
'org.freedesktop.PloicyKit1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown 
return code 1"

My first system generation where this is a problem is my first one to have 
linux-libre-5.0. I do not know how to narrow down where the problem was 
introduced further.

Best,
Jack

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
Cc: 34788-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dannym <at> scratchpost.org
Subject: Re: bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate
 "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:24:28 +0100

Hello!

There were two issues:

  1. /var/empty would be 700 and owned by one of the accounts that uses
     it as its home directories.  Consequently, polkitd would fail to
     chdir to it, and thus fail to start.

  2. /var/run/dbus would be 700 as well, but the problem is that it
     contains the daemon’s socket, so D-Bus client would no longer be
     able to connect to it.

Both are fixed with commit d429878daf3e3eb21660ed80934b1d4b0603f6e1.

Sorry for the breakage!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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