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Please provide the output of the following commands, run as your regular user in a terminal:

Code: Select all: loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit" pkexec whoami # you need to enter your root password when asked by the authentication dialog echo $DISPLAY

and as root from:

Code: Select all: systemctl status polkit.service -a

Code: Select all: [logar@localhost ~]$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID Id=c1 Name=logar Timestamp=Thu 2016-05-26 08:45:25 PDT TimestampMonotonic=37963474 VTNr=2 Display=:0 Remote=no Service=kdm Scope=session-c1.scope Leader=1007 Audit=0 Type=x11 Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 [logar@localhost ~]$ ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit" polkitd 2087 1 0 May26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug [logar@localhost ~]$ pkexec whoami # you need to enter your root password when asked by the authentication dialog ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec === Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/whoami' as the super user Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. [logar@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost logar]# systemctl status polkit.service -a ● polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static) Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-05-26 08:45:32 PDT; 24h ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 2087 (polkitd) CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service └─2087 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug May 26 08:45:32 localhost polkitd[2087]: Started polkitd version 0.113 May 26 08:45:32 localhost polkitd[2087]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d May 26 08:45:32 localhost polkitd[2087]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d May 26 08:45:32 localhost polkitd[2087]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 5 rules May 26 08:45:32 localhost polkitd[2087]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus May 27 09:41:06 localhost polkitd[2087]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6460:8977234 (system bus name :1.51 [pkexec whoami], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) May 27 09:41:17 localhost polkitd[2087]: Operator of unix-process:6460:8977234 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.policykit.exec for unix-process:6460:8977234 [/bin/bash] (owned by unix-user:logar) May 27 09:41:17 localhost polkitd[2087]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6460:8977234 (system bus name :1.51, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) [root@localhost logar]#

Garthhh wrote:[logar@localhost ~]$ ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit"
polkitd 2087 1 0 May26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
[logar@localhost ~]$

There's no polkit user agent running, hence you won't get the authentication dialog and hence nothing happens.

You'd probably need to switch to a different polkit agent, but I'd need to look that up first and verify that it's working.
In the meantime you could try to reboot and check the output of ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit" again to see whether a polkit agent is running, apart from the polkit system daemon /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd.

switching to mate de brought back functionality
I reenabled autologin to KDE & broke it again
except now I can't change back to mate
what commands will disable auto login or change de to mate?

Just change to which desktop you autologin via http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakboot.html

no drakboot. no policykit

Code: Select all: [logar@localhost ~]$ drakboot ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mageia.drakboot.pkexec.run === Authentication is required to run Mageia Boot Configuration Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. [logar@localhost ~]$

You'd need to change to root before you run drakboot via

Code: Select all: su -

thank thats good
how do I go about fixing the kde policy kit malfunction?

doktor5000 wrote:You'd probably need to switch to a different polkit agent, but I'd need to look that up first and verify that it's working.
In the meantime you could try to reboot and check the output of ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit" again to see whether a polkit agent is running, apart from the polkit system daemon /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd.

Code: Select all: [logar@localhost ~]$ ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|policykit" polkitd 1995 1 0 10:52 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug [logar@localhost ~]$

Garthhh wrote:thank thats good
how do I go about fixing the kde policy kit malfunction?

Most likely by replacing it. I also had a similar polkit issue. In my case seemingly self created issue.

Solved it by clearing and replacing all polkit packages:

Code: Select all: urpmi --replacepkgs --clean lib64mate-polkit1_0 lib64polkit-gir1.0 lib64polkit-qt-agent-1_1 lib64polkit-qt-core-1_1 lib64polkit1_0 mate-polkit polkit polkit-kde-agent-1

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