Re: policy kit problem

Just in case somebody has the same problem and ends up here via google:

The problem is with startx not working nicely together with polkit and
the solution is described here:

http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-x-and-systemd.html

Basically you need to say "startx -- vt01" if you are logged in to tty1.

Cheers,
Daniel



On 10/19/12, Daniel Fetchinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/19/12, Mihai T. Lazarescu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:41:19PM +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
>>
>>> Am 18.10.2012 23:57, schrieb Daniel Fetchinson:
>>> >After a recent upgrade to fedora 17 I'm having all sorts of permission
>>> >problems (nm-applet can't connect, webcam doesn't work only for root,
>>> >there is no audio, etc, etc) and after googling around I think I found
>>> >the reason: I'm not using a graphical login screen but boot into text
>>> >mode, enter my login/passwd in text, then do a 'startx'. In my
>>> >.Xclients I have all sorts of stuff ending with 'exec sawfish'.
>>> >
>>> >Now it seems the way I have things set up doesn't integrate with
>>> >policy kit which results in my permission problems. So how do you guys
>>> >use sawfish stand alone and how do you use policy kit?
>>>
>>> Btw. on Arch Linux policykit is deprecated in favour of
>>> polkit.  I do not know the situation in fedora.
>>
>> I use XFCE with sawfish on F17 and see that this process
>> is running:
>>
>>     /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
>
> Yes, that's running for me as well :)
> I guess for you xfce starts it and for me gnome-settings-daemon does.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
>> Mihai
>>
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