polkit not running after update
Gerrit Kuehn
gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de
Wed Jan 27 07:13:45 UTC 2021
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:29:14 +0100
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
> > ---
> > [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.
> That message is a standard message from pkg about configuration
> files. Any file marked as a configuration file in the port will
> trigger that message when the port is removed (upgrading entails
> removing the port and reinstalling).
So printing this under "extracting" is misleading, and the message is
rather caused before when deinstalling the old package version?
> pkg should leave the file there and only modify the .sample one on
> upgrade. It simply informs you you can remove configuration files for
> software you no longer use.
>
> Don't know why you end up missing the file. It should definitely be
> there and is needed as long as you use polkit.
It is reproducible for me. This file isn't installed when installing
the port.
cu
Gerrit
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