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policykit package

  1. Bug #426556
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 426556

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Michael Rodler (michael-r) wrote :

I also had this or a similar problem. "polkitd" used lots of my resources.
My "dbus-monitor --system" output looked the same, but syslog is a little bit different to Alex Peters.
syslog showed this messages:
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost pulseaudio[4468]: module-device-restore.c: Failed to open volume database '/home/mikey/.pulse/14e15c3974578d407ec6bec04bbe12c0-device-volumes': Permission denied
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost pulseaudio[4468]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-device-restore" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost pulseaudio[4468]: main.c: Module load failed.
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost pulseaudio[4468]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost pulseaudio[4466]: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Apr 10 00:29:38 localhost rtkit-daemon[1518]: Warning: Reached burst limit for user '1000', denying request.

I suspect it was because i copied my home folder from another machine so that the symlink to the file in tmp wasn't set correctly (maybe also after an upgrade). After deleting my "~/.pulse/" directory the problem disappeared.

I don't know if this is the exactly same problem, as the opener of the bug report has, but maybe it helps.