polkit not running after update

[Gerrit Kühn]

Am Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:33:44 +0100
schrieb Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>:

> >> Especially the file
> >> /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf, is it
> >> unmodified from what the port installs? There should be a .sample file
> >> you can try a diff from.  

> > The file isn't there at all, it is simply missing (for whatever
> > reason). Even reinstalling polkit before obiously didn't produce it.
> > Anyway, now I just copied over the .sample file manually, restarted...
> > and everything is working again as expected.

> Sometimes wild guesses do reach the point!

After pondering about this a bit more, I found the following note when
reinstalling polkit once more:

---
[1/1] Extracting polkit-0.118: 100%
You may need to manually remove
/usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf if it is no
longer needed.
---

And indeed, the file is gone again. So the state of the system above was
as designed (whithout the file), but it didn't work for me. So something's
fishy here. Either the system should work without the file, or the message
is wrong.


cu
  Gerrit