On 4/2/25 8:46 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote: Well pkexec is installed. Never had issues until updating from 14.1.2 to 14.1.3. I could revert a system or two to 14.1.2 and try to learn why pkexec worked fine there in TDE. My wild guess is the KDE polkit agent was running and I had no need to pay attention to that. Okay, good. I have both building. Yet I can't get the packages to function. Is there some dependency I am unaware? I don't see anything in the wiki. I get the feeling I am not seeing something obvious, or perhaps the packages are designed with some Debian installation presumptions. I'm on a Slackware system. :) I'm knee deep into creating my build environment. Determined like mad to get this all functional. Would be really nice if Slackware folks had a full build environment. So all help is appreciated. :)

On 4/2/25 9:19 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote: I had one system still running 14.1.2. I found that the reason I never had a problem with pkexec in TDE 14.1.2 or previous is the gnome polkit agent was launching in the background. To my understanding, any agent will suffice. Now back to the original problem of why the TDE polkit agent is not functioning here. The agent autostarts fine, so something else is awry. My guess is how I am building the package. I presume other TDE users are not experiencing any such issue.

On 4/3/25 5:38 PM, deloptes via tde-devels wrote: The gnome agent was starting in 14.1.2 because the TDE polkit-tde package did not yet exist. In 14.1.3 the TDE agent launches but fails to function. When launched from a terminal window, pkexec hangs. When repeating with strace, there is a terminating error 'pkexec must be setuid root'. Searching the web did not help and as might be guessed, /usr/bin/pkexec is indeed setuid. Not running the TDE polkit agent and letting either the KDE or GNOME agent launch on startup results in pkexec working as expected.