polkit not running after update
Guido Falsi
mad at madpilot.net
Wed Jan 27 08:19:17 UTC 2021
On 27/01/21 08:13, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
>
> 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?
You can file a bug report/change request in pkg repo on github if you
think this should be changed.
>
>> 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.
Same ass above.
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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
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