Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2024-03-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 at 22:30:01 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 04:05:43 +0200 Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: > > My speculation is that this happened while satisfying dependencies for > > a third party i386 application. That meant installing required 32 bit > > libraries, and one of

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2024-03-12 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Michael Biebl wrote: > I've contemplated dropping the Multi-Arch: foreign notation in systemd and > maybe also for policykit-1. > > Is there a valid use case where we need/want a foreign systemd/policykit-1? Wouldn't that go in the wrong direction? I'd think that we want the native systemd or

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2024-03-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 04:05:43 +0200 Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: Luca Boccassi wrote: [...] > I don't think this is something we should facilitate by default or > spend any energy on. > > You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any good reason why > anybody would need to run a polkitd:i386

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2023-08-08 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Luca Boccassi wrote: [...] > I don't think this is something we should facilitate by default or > spend any energy on. > > You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any good reason why > anybody would need to run a polkitd:i386 on an otherwise amd64 system. > It's not what happens by

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2023-08-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 10:08:26 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2023 at 18:34:14 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: > > for reasons lost in time I had polkitd:i386 installed on an x86_64 host. > > > > After the update to 123-1, polkitd stopped working with errors like > > > >   [

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2023-08-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 03 Aug 2023 at 18:34:14 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: > for reasons lost in time I had polkitd:i386 installed on an x86_64 host. > > After the update to 123-1, polkitd stopped working with errors like > > [ 2080.436059] audit: type=1326 audit(1691077090.861:74): auid=4294967295 >

Bug#1042981: Multiarch pitfall: polkitd fails to start if not installed in native architecture

2023-08-03 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Package: polkitd Version: 123-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd Dear Maintainer, for reasons lost in time I had polkitd:i386 installed on an x86_64 host. After the update to 123-1, polkitd stopped working with errors like [ 2080.436059] audit: type=1326