My system doesn't allow me do anything

[Zhu, Peter J]

Thanks David.

I can't run this agent successfully with following info:
    (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:962): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in : Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSessionForUnixProcess() on /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager at name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError:unable to lookup session information for process 962.

I have a question, from the man page of polkit, do we need agent running to determine authorization? I'm running moblin with a very special way to startup desktop

I just run polkitd in root bash and as I inserted a usb disk, it has following info:

[root at localhost ~]# /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 
Registering null backend at priority -10
Using authority class PolkitBackendLocalAuthority

** (process:933): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.17 is inquiring whether system-bus-name::1.15 is authorized for org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
** (process:933): DEBUG:  user of caller is unix-user:root
** (process:933): DEBUG:  user of subject is unix-user:peter
** (process:933): DEBUG: checking whether system-bus-name::1.15 is authorized for org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
** (process:933): DEBUG:   (nil)
** (process:933): DEBUG:  not authorized
** (process:933): DEBUG:  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Zeuthen [mailto:david at fubar.dk]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:48 PM
> To: Zhu, Peter J
> Cc: polkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: My system doesn't allow me do anything
> 
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 12:49 +0800, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
> > It’s really weird. Any help? If need more info, please let me know
> 
> Do you have an authentication agent running? If not, try starting
> 
>  /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> 
> manually and check again (running 'pkexec bash' as an unprivileged user
> is a great way to check that everything is set up correctly). It's also
> useful to run polkitd from a root shell and look at the debug output.
> 
> If you can't get it to work, then please open a bug at
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ and supply details like what distribution
> you are using and what versions of polkit (and polkit-gnome) this is
> about. Thanks.
> 
>     David
> 
>