Comment 30 for bug 275432

I was searching around about the error mentioned above and found this bug report. I went and did the research and came across alot of the same initiatives. I did a clean cli only based install of Ubuntu 8.10 Server (released version) and also added the OpenSSH server option during install. Afterwards several packages were installed however I do not remember ever installing dbus. For the developers and maintainers I'm sure you all have this but I will post this here. These seem to be pretty critical packages to me and probably installed when I setup the distro.

dbus - simple interprocess messaging system
dbus-x11 - simple interprocess messaging system (X11 deps)
consolekit - framework for defining and tracking users, sessions and seats

I also have libpolkit2 installed but do not know why. If any functions were to be broken what would they be? I can add and remove users or groups via commandline just fine and all my stuff is done on the console. More specifically what does the policykit package provide?