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Although fixing PolicyKit for this case should be possible, it would be a rather intrusive patch, and given its security sensitive nature, I'd rather not remove its defences.
I think it is more appropriate to make ConsoleKit work if PolityKit initialization fails. In that case it should just disable the reboot/halt functionality, just as if it would have been compiled without PK support in the first place.
I reported this as bug 20876, with a tested patch.
I keep this open, though, since fixing it in PK, with a semantics of "always return NO if no configuration is found" would fix the problem more fundamentally, and for all software using PK.