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Hi. |
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Some time ago (probably between two weeks and month) after another |
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system update I started encountering problems with some userland |
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services like blueman and nm-applet. |
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I have encountered blueman problem every time when I logged in to my |
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XFCE session. Right after XFCE init I did see this: |
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https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/issues/913 |
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Probably at the same time I became unable to enable my VPN connections |
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using nm-applet. After choosing my connection from dropdown menu I've |
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seen the error in notification bubble: |
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> The VPN connection "..." failed to start. |
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> Not authorized to control networking |
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Third but not as likely related (not sure if it started to happen at the |
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same time) is XFCE shutdown/reboot problems. For some time I'm unable to |
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directly shutdown or reboot my PC from XFCE "Action Buttons" panel |
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plugin. If I choose "Restart" or "Shut Down" then XFCE just logs out |
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from my session and I will see SDDM. If I choose shutdown/reboot in SDDM |
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then all will be ok but direct shutdown from XFCE only logs me out. |
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And fourth problem is that for some time I became unable to mount USB |
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flash drives from the file manager. In Thunar when I'm clicking on USB |
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drive nothing happens (even nothing in the thunar console output if I |
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run it from there). There is also nothing strange in journalctl when I'm |
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plugging my USB flash drive. |
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If I try to mount my USB drive using "sudo mount /dev/sdX1 |
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/media/usb_flash" then all works perfectly. udisksctl which I've never |
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used in the past (but was told to try after mentioning this problem) |
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mounts USB drive correctly but only after asking root password. |
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After reading the issue in the blueman repository I tried "fix" which |
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was mentioned here: |
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https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/issues/912#issuecomment-427648539 |
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https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/PolicyKit |
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It did help with blueman error on XFCE start. |
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I'm not familiar with policykit at all but it looks like there was some |
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systematic changes in permission policies and I think that there must be |
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more correct and more generic solution than manually creating policykit |
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policies for every service which I notice problems with. |
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Kind regards, |
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Alexey Eschenko |
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https://skobk.in/ |
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