2 Apr
2025
2 Apr
'25
10:56 p.m.
I built and installed polkit-tqt and polkit-agent-tde. The
polkit-agent-tde agent launches fine and can be seen in the process list.
Yet I am unable to launch pkexec. Just hangs. No issues with
polkit-agent-kde.
Where to debug?
Thanks.
3 Apr
3 Apr
1:46 a.m.
On 2025/04/03 07:56 AM, Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:
I built and installed polkit-tqt and polkit-agent-tde.
The polkit-agent-tde agent launches fine and can be seen in the
process list.
Yet I am unable to launch pkexec. Just hangs. No issues with polkit-agent-kde.
Hi Darrell,
pkexec is provided by the distribution, so you should focus on polkit config and related
files (maybe missing
dependencies or libraries?).
Yes, polkit-tqt is a prerequisite for polkit-agent-tde.
Cheers
Michele
2:02 a.m.
On 4/2/25 8:46 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote:
pkexec is provided by the distribution, so you should
focus on polkit
config and related files (maybe missing dependencies or libraries?).
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.
Yes, polkit-tqt is a prerequisite for
polkit-agent-tde.
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. :)
2:19 a.m.
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.
pkexec is expected to work without TDE, there is nothing TDE related there. Maybe it is as
you said.
Yes, polkit-tqt is a prerequisite for
polkit-agent-tde.
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. :)
5:38 p.m.
On 4/2/25 9:19 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote:
No other pre requisite AFAIR. The packages are not
designed for debian
installation, they are general. You just need to make sure you build and
install the various config files correctly based on your distro paths.
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.
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