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policykit-1 package

  1. Bug #1436448
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1436448

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: Error messages while installing apport package

I can easily reproduce this on a generic ppc64el virtual machine; policykit-1 may have trouble starting up:
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)

In my case however it happened with the systemd postinst:
Processing triggers for systemd (219-9ubuntu1) ...
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
Failed to execute operation: Connection timed out
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.12-1ubuntu5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Running the install again appears to eventually let it succeed. Since it's not just reproducible with apport; I'm reassigning this to policykit-1.