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On Fri, Jun 08 2012, walt wrote: |
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> On 06/08/2012 06:39 AM, walt wrote: |
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>> I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is |
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>> badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but |
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>> I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. |
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>> The symptom is that every application icon I click on starts in |
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>> the background but never appears on the gnome desktop :/ Almost |
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>> like they're being displayed on a remote X server instead of my |
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>> local machine. Weird. |
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> Turned out to be the update of polkit from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6, which |
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> was dragged in by the update of udisks from 1.97.0 to 1.98.0. |
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> For reasons I don't know, the polkit daemon wasn't actually running. |
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> Dunno if it failed to start or somebody forgot to start it. Either |
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> way the system was broken, so I'll let the experts figure it out. |
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I have different systems (X / gdm) doesn't start, but also have the new |
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polkit. My main system with the older polkit 105 does work. |
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There are bug reports on polkit, e.g. 42013. |
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Thanks to you I ran |
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emerge -1 =polkit-0.105 =udisks-1.97.0-r1 |
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and it works. |
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thanks for the headsup! |
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allan |
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