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On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: |
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> On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: |
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>>> On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>>> Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. |
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>>> Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? |
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>>> Philipp |
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>> Not polkitd but a polkituser - what should I have? |
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>> polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin |
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> I run ~amd64, there was a bug that the polkitd user was created with |
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> invalid home and then politd or some other server could not be |
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> run. Re-emerging the package some time later showed a message how to |
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> fix it. No idea about polkituser though, can't find anything about |
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> that. |
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Check out https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420269 |
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I am currently running 0.106-r7, which has backed out most of the |
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problems. There was trouble with users polkitd and adm. Now with -r7 I |
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was able to remove my workarounds and have |
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adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/bin/false |
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polkitd:x:110:998:added by portage for polkit:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nologin |
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in /etc/passwd. |
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hth, |
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allan |
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