polkitd.postinst script refers to non-existent /usr/libexec/polkitd

[Daniel Richard G.]

I am seeing this on Ubuntu noble with polkitd 123-3.

After debootstrap'ing a minimal system, I run

    # apt-get install linux-generic

which pulls in polkitd as a dependency. In the output, I see the following:

    Setting up polkitd (123-3) ...
    Creating group 'polkitd' with GID 994.
    Creating user 'polkitd' (polkit) with UID 994 and GID 994.
    Running in chroot, ignoring request.
     * Reloading system message bus config... Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
    invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "reload" failed.
    start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/libexec/polkitd (No such file or directory)

There is indeed no file there:

    # ls -l /usr/libexec/polkitd
    ls: cannot access '/usr/libexec/polkitd': No such file or directory

The binary appears to be installed at /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd .