PolicyKit not working in Rawhide?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 21:48:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 23:48 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 08:25 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:22:55 -0800, AW (Adam) wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone else noticed this? Anything which needs interactive auth via PK
> > > doesn't seem to work: when I run virt-manager it doesn't ask me for the
> > > root password and then successfully list out the local VMs, it just
> > > immediately displays an error because it's not authorized to connect to
> > > libvirt. Can't install a package via gnome-packagekit for the same
> > > reason.
> > 
> > Confirmed. Yesterday's upgrade to Rawhide from F-16 ends up with NM not
> > prompting for root password at all and refusing to edit network connection
> > settings.
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation, filed
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753051 .

Turns out this is an SELinux issue: booting with enforcing=0 'fixes' it.
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