Hi Tito, Thanks for sharing your state! (And others for helpful replies - I'm just answering this one for now.)
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 02:43:36PM +0100, tito wrote: > Hi, > I'm on a sysvinit/elogind system too and have KDE and xfce4 installed. > I use xfce4 as daily driver and everything works as expected. > I have these polkit stuff installed: > > apt list *polkit* | grep installed > > gir1.2-polkit-1.0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > libpolkit-agent-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > libpolkit-gobject-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 all [installed] > libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed] > libpolkit-qt5-1-1/stable,now 0.114.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > polkit-kde-agent-1/stable,now 4:5.27.5-2 amd64 [installed] > polkitd-pkla/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > polkitd/stable,now 122-3devuan2 amd64 [installed,automatic] I guess you are on stable - I and, presumably the OP, experience this issue on unstable boxes (and notably not on a box that I upgraded from stable). > /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop Thanks. I also have this, but notably it is NOT running. This fatal 'warning' appears in session logs and if invoked by hand: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:6713): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: 17:02:14.853: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 6713 > So I presume it is started early in the X startup process > probably by the login manager itself (sddm in my case). Note that the display manager (lightdm) also does not offer shutdown options - so that too presumably failed to start an agent. With the gnome agent deprecated clearly that is an issue in its own right! I just substitued lxagent. That produces the same error but is actually still running. Elevation is still not possible. Thanks, Andrew
