bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 14:39:49 -0500 (EST)
Jack Hill <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden /gnu/store# cat 
> c57y49r44086xi8lh12s192m2w26b0ba-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
> Exec=/gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
>  --no-debug
> User=root
> SystemdService=polkit.service
> address@hidden /gnu/store# 
> /gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd 
> --no-debug
> address@hidden /gnu/store# echo $?
> 1
> address@hidden /gnu/store# cat 
> fhsx7yznpywr9gsi5swp9hy3ldmp3agq-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
> Exec=/gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
>  --no-debug
> User=root
> SystemdService=polkit.service
> address@hidden /gnu/store# 
> /gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd 
> --no-debug
> address@hidden /gnu/store# echo $?
> 1
> address@hidden /gnu/store# ps -ef|grep polkit
> root       767   729  0 14:35 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto polkit
> address@hidden /gnu/store#

Hmm, try strace 
/gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd 
--no-debug >some_log_file.txt 2>&1

Maybe we can find what it doesn't like there...

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