Polkit and auditd services

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Subject says it all. Both services won’t start after a reboot. This may also leads to a very
slow boot process. What to do?

Uwe

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Sorry it’s the polkit service…

Uwe

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What’s the result of

systemctl status polkit

What’s in the journal?

journalctl -b 0 | grep polkit
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first question:
Mar 04 17:05:44 p200300e51726b3df1ac04dfffeea395f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager…
Mar 04 17:05:44 p200300e51726b3df1ac04dfffeea395f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de systemd[1]: polkit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 04 17:05:44 p200300e51726b3df1ac04dfffeea395f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de systemd[1]: polkit.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 04 17:05:44 p200300e51726b3df1ac04dfffeea395f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de systemd[1]: Failed to start Authorization Manager.

second one:

the polkit sevice was requested and then:
polkit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Und dies ziemlich lange…

Uwe

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Fixed title (change “Pilkit” to “Polkit”).

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Hmmm, … that is really strange. On my system it looks like this:

> systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-03-04 15:04:54 CET; 2h 31min ago
       Docs: man:polkit(8)
   Main PID: 881 (polkitd)
      Tasks: 3
        CPU: 411ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service
             └─881 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug

Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Started polkitd version 121
Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules
Mär 04 15:04:53 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
Mär 04 15:04:54 SYSTEM01 systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
Mär 04 15:05:09 SYSTEM01 polkitd[881]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:3 (system bus name :1.41 [/usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/Pol>
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@unass:

Please check if, the following packages are installed correctly on your system:

 > zypper search --installed-only polkit
Repository-Daten werden geladen...
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S  | Name                    | Summary                                        | Type
---+-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+------
i+ | gconf-polkit            | GNOME Konfigurations-Datenbanksystem           | Paket
i  | libpolkit-qt5-1-1       | PolicyKit Library Qt Bindings                  | Paket
i+ | libpolkit0              | PolicyKit Authorization Framework -- Libraries | Paket
i+ | polkit                  | PolicyKit Authorization Framework              | Paket
i+ | polkit-default-privs    | SUSE PolicyKit default permissions             | Paket
i  | polkit-gnome            | PolicyKit integration for the GNOME desktop    | Paket
i  | polkit-gnome-lang       | Translations for package polkit-gnome          | Paket
i  | polkit-kde-agent-5      | PolicyKit-Legitimationsdienst für KDE          | Paket
i  | polkit-kde-agent-5-lang | Translations for package polkit-kde-agent-5    | Paket
 > 
 > zypper search --installed-only audit
Repository-Daten werden geladen...
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S  | Name               | Summary                                                 | Type
---+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+------
i+ | audit              | User Space Tools for Kernel Auditing                    | Paket
i+ | libaudit1          | Library for interfacing with the kernel audit subsystem | Paket
i  | libaudit1-32bit    | Library for interfacing with the kernel audit subsystem | Paket
i  | system-group-audit | System group 'audit'                                    | Paket
 >

In addition, you should also execute “zypper verify” and “rpm --verify --all” .

  • We may have to verify that, you have the correct openSUSE repositories configured.
    Please post the output of “zypper repos --uri” as a separate reply.