On 03/19/2013 07:48 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Emmett Culley wrote: >> On 03/19/2013 07:25 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Emmett Culley wrote: >>>> Twice I've done a fresh install of a "Development" machine. In both >>>> cases pkexec as a normal user always returns "Error executing command as >>>> another user: No authentication agent was found." This keeps me from > getting a >>>> root command line and prevents yumex from starting from the launcher. >>>> >>>> I've googled and found nothing accept some references to installing >>>> virtual box. Checking the man pages for polkit was no help either. >>>> >>>> Since this only happens when I install the "Development" group I must >>>> assume that some package is missing, and I am at a loss as to where to >>>> look. >>>> >>>> Any clues? >>> >>> Completely unfamiliar with pkexec, but it sounds as though no >>> authentication agent is running. Is something like ssh-agent running, >>> and have you added credentials (e.g. ssh-add)? >> >> Kwallet is running and working as I get prompted, as expected, for my >> private key passwords when appropriate. >> >> I didn't know anything about pkexec either, until now. I only found out >> about it by googling for the error quoted above. I have, in the past, run >> into issues starting a root terminal from the launcher (KDE), but it has >> always returned to normal after a restart or re-login. This is the first >> time it has been persistent and consistent. >> >> All the searches seem to indicate that the polkit daemon is not configured >> correctly, but in no case is there any suggestions on how to configure it. >> >> I'll keep looking for documentation. > > Have you read the man page? I just did, and I've got a really good guess > as to why it says that: it appears to want to work like sudo - > someotheruser > > mark It turns out that every machine I've updated to 6.4 works like this. Most of the others I only log into occasionally, and as root. I suppose it is possible that they were like this before I upgraded to 6.4. I'll have to build a 6.3 machine and find out. Emmett