Bug#1027999: xscreensaver: xscreensaver-systemd does not start: "inhibit sleep failed: Permission denied"

2023-01-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
What does polkitd do, and why does xscreensaver-systemd fail without it? I gather it has something to do with "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1" but I can't tell what that's for either, and xscreensaver-systemd does not explicitly use it.

Bug#1027999: xscreensaver: xscreensaver-systemd does not start: "inhibit sleep failed: Permission denied"

2023-01-05 Thread Reiner Herrmann
Package: xscreensaver Version: 6.02+dfsg1-2 Hi, I enabled the xscreensaver user service, but noticed that it fails to start xscreensaver-systemd. In the log I could only find: Jan 05 19:22:58 hostname xscreensaver[4360]: xscreensaver-systemd: 19:22:58: inhibit sleep failed: Permission denied