On Jun 22 16:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated a server machine from F17 to F18.  This server is
> running a local VNC session which I connect to via SSH.  It's using
> an XFCE4 desktop environment.
> 
> The machine is running a lot of virtual machines and so far there
> was a virt-manager instance running in the VNC desktop.
> 
> After the upgrade to F18, virt-manager no longer starts:
> 
>   Unable to connect to libvirt.
> 
>   authentication failed: polkit: Authorization requires authentication
>   but no agent is available.
> 
> So I checked and, yes, there's actually no agent running, there's no
> polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 process, as usual.
> 
> In the XFCE4 Session settings, starting the PolicyKit Authentication
> Agent is activated.  But polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 simply
> doesn't start.  When I try to start it from the command line, I only
> get an error message:
> 
>   $ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> 
>   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5772): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **:
>   Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 5772

The same message is in the vncserver log file, btw.  I'm starting the
XFCE4 desktop via `exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch' and ck-launch-session
starts and runs.  What else can I do?!?


Thanks for any help,
Corinna
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