Description of problem: After upgrading from f21 to f22 the system was nearly unbootable due to an error activating org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1. Further investigation revealed that polkit-gnome and lxpolkit (both are PolicyKit auth agents) does not work well together. System booted OK right after removal of polkit-gnome. The former one was brought by recent update of gparted. The latter has been my everyday polkit auth agent for a couple of years since I stopped using GNOME. Furthermore, I downloaded gparted .src.rpm, replaced 'Requires: polkit-gnome' with 'Requires: PolicyKit-authentication-agent' (which AFAIK is provided by every polkit auth agent in stock Fedora repos), built an rpm in copr repo (https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dexpl/gparted/) and installed gparted from that repo, and everything seems working OK now — both my system and gparted (with lxpolkit). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gparted-0:0.22.0-1.fc22.x86_64 lxpolkit-0:0.1.0-10.fc22.x86_64 polkit-gnome-0:0.105-7.fc22.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a Fedora 22 with any DE that does not depend on polkit-gnome. Check that `rpm -q --whatprovides PolicyKit-authentication-agent` does return something different from polkit-gnome, such as lxpolkit. 2. Install gparted. Check that `rpm -q --whatprovides PolicyKit-authentication-agent` now returns both polkit-gnome and lxpolkit. 3. Try to reboot. Warning: it will likely fail.
well, I run xfce and authentication in my case is provided by polkit-gnome. But, the DEs provide policykit authentication agents anyway. So, this change is probably fine. However, before I change anything, I want to test this more .. Thanks for the report. I will do the needful.
Maybe I can help somehow?
Sorry! I kind of lost track of this bug completely. I will look into this.
Can you try this and see if it works? https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=11618041
gparted-0.24.0-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm installs OK without requiring polkit-gnome, `sudo gparted` works as it should, but after launching gparted_polkit and inputting password it says (gpartedbin:8602): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: and stops. If I manually stop lxpolkit, install and launch polkit-gnome and re-run gparted_polkit, the outcome is the same (i. e. password dialog and 'cannot open display'). Fedora 23, gparted-0.24.0-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm, lxpolkit-0.5.2-6.fc23.x86_64, gtk2-2.24.28-2.fc23.x86_64, polkit-gnome-0:0.105-9.fc23.x86_64
OK, I am able to reproduce this exactly as you describe. Let me try again ...
gparted-0.25.0-4.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-8df2fdc7ce
gparted-0.25.0-4.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-8df2fdc7ce
gparted-0.25.0-4.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.