On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: >>> On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. >>> Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? >>> >>> Philipp >>> >>> >> Not polkitd but a polkituser - what should I have? >> >> polkituser:x:118:1021:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin >> > > I run ~amd64, there was a bug that the polkitd user was created with > invalid home and then politd or some other server could not be > run. Re-emerging the package some time later showed a message how to > fix it. No idea about polkituser though, can't find anything about > that.
Check out https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420269 I am currently running 0.106-r7, which has backed out most of the problems. There was trouble with users polkitd and adm. Now with -r7 I was able to remove my workarounds and have adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/bin/false polkitd:x:110:998:added by portage for polkit:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nologin in /etc/passwd. hth, allan
