sxmo-sway-ui, polkit fails to launch
Ok on a fresh install on a pinephone running sxmo-sway-ui, polkit fails to launch:
Dynamic Runlevel: manual
polkit [ failed ]# cat var/log/messages | grep polkit
2021-12-03 03:57:57 info polkitd[3443]: Started polkitd version 0.119
2021-12-03 03:57:58 warning supervise-daemon[3108]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, pid 3443, exited with return code 0
2021-12-03 03:57:58 info supervise-daemon[3453]: Child command line: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
...
2021-12-03 03:57:57 info polkitd[3443]: Started polkitd version 0.119
2021-12-03 03:57:58 warning supervise-daemon[3108]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, pid 3443, exited with return code 0
2021-12-03 03:57:58 info supervise-daemon[3453]: Child command line: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
2021-12-03 03:57:58 info polkitd[3453]: Started polkitd version 0.119
2021-12-03 03:57:58 warning supervise-daemon[3108]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, pid 3453, exited with return code 0
2021-12-03 03:57:58 info supervise-daemon[3471]: Child command line: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
2021-12-03 03:57:58 info polkitd[3471]: Started polkitd version 0.119
2021-12-03 03:57:58 warning supervise-daemon[3108]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, pid 3471, exited with return code 0
2021-12-03 03:57:58 warning supervise-daemon[3108]: respawned "/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd" too many times, exitingHow to reproduce your issue?
Install v21.12 from pmbootstrap and boot into postmarketOS.
What device are you using?
pine64-pinephone
On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?
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edge (
masterbranch) -
v21.06 -
v21.12
On what environment did you encounter the issue?
Phone environments
- Phosh
- Plasma Mobile
- Sxmo
Other
- No environment
- GNOME
- KDE Plasma
- Kodi
- MATE
- Shelli
- Sway
- Weston
- Xfce4
- fbkeyboard
- i3wm
How did you get postmarketOS image?
- from https://images.postmarketos.org
- I built it using pmbootstrap
- It was preinstalled on my device
What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
Additional information
related: !1323 (merged)
Activity
changed milestone to %v21.12 Release
do you think it might be related to this?
#1304 (closed), which was supposedly fixed by: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/27612
Verify that the permissions referenced in that issue are set correctly on your install
By clayton craft on 2021-12-06T06:31:36
Edited by Ghost User
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/var/log # /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd Successfully changed to user polkitd Error loading /var/run/ConsoleKit/database: Error statting file /var/run/ConsoleKit/database: No such file or directory13:10:21.413: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d 13:10:21.414: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d 13:10:21.417: Finished loading, compiling and executing 5 rules Entering main event loop Connected to the system bus 13:10:21.420: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exiting Shutting down Exiting with code 0Had to install
consolekit2and runconsole-kit-daemonto fix theError loading /var/run/ConsoleKit/database: Error statting file /var/run/ConsoleKit/database: No such file or directory13:10:21.413: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.derror.But polkit still stops with the following log:
Successfully changed to user polkitd 13:12:38.483: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d 13:12:38.483: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d 13:12:38.487: Finished loading, compiling and executing 5 rules Entering main event loop Connected to the system bus 13:12:38.490: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exiting Shutting down Exiting with code 0Seems that
13:12:38.490: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exitingis likely the issue. I found this:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148306
Not sure how to apply the suggestion on that post to pmOS.
By Anjandev Momi on 2021-12-12T18:55:06
Edited by Administrator -
dwm: https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-utils/tree/master/item/scripts/core/sxmo_xinit.sh#L105
sway: https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-utils/tree/master/item/scripts/core/sxmo_winit.sh#L66
By Anjandev Momi on 2021-12-12T18:59:30
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@craftyguy even though openrc thinks polkit hasnt started, the program is running:
pinephone:~$ ps aux | grep polkit 2837 polkitd 0:15 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug 9869 anjan 0:00 grep polkit pinephone:~$ rc-status Runlevel: default syslog-ng [ started ] dbus [ started ] haveged [ started ] wpa_supplicant [ started 03:45:07 (0) ] swapfile [ started ] nftables [ started ] networkmanager [ started 03:45:07 (0) ] gpsd [ started ] gpsd_pinephone [ started ] rfkill [ started ] udev-postmount [ started ] bluetooth [ started ] chronyd [ started ] crond [ started ] modemmanager [ started 03:45:06 (0) ] eg25-manager [ started 03:45:06 (0) ] polkit [ failed ] seatd [ started ] sshd [ started ] sxmo-setpermissions [ started ] tinydm [ started 03:45:05 (0) ] local [ started ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted sysfs [ started ] fsck [ started ] loopback [ started ] root [ started ] localmount [ started ] Dynamic Runlevel: manual polkit [ failed ]By Anjandev Momi on 2021-12-14T03:34:45
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I have the same: rc-status claims polkit failed, but it is running fine.
Installing elogind removes the messages in log and makes it state it didn't fail, although it might introduce other complications.
By peterjohnhartman on 2021-12-14T23:43:05
Edited by Ghost User
mentioned in merge request !2750 (merged)
By Anjandev Momi on 2021-12-14T19:32:13