Hi everyone, We seem to be having issues on multiple CentOS 7.3 machines. The problem seems to revolve around polkitd. At some random time, polkitd seems to stop responding on my systems. Along with this, there might be hundreds of defunct pkla-check-authorization processes. If I reboot, then things are fine for a while. I don't see any activity in the unabridged journal to suggest anything that might be triggering polkitd. The puppet run finished 5 minutes before polkitd lost it's head. polkit version is polkit-0.112-11.el7_3.x86_64 Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Jason Here is some condensed output from the "journalctl -u polkit" command: Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager... Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost polkitd[1018]: Started polkitd version 0.112 Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost polkitd[1018]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 7 rules Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager. Mar 09 04:02:14 myhost polkitd[1018]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus Mar 09 04:02:53 myhost polkitd[1018]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.41 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Reloading rules Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Collecting garbage unconditionally... Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 8 rules Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Reloading rules Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Collecting garbage unconditionally... Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:08:25 myhost polkitd[1018]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 8 rules Mar 09 04:08:53 myhost polkitd[1018]: Reloading rules ... (snipped more rules loading) Mar 09 04:10:39 myhost polkitd[1018]: Collecting garbage unconditionally... Mar 09 04:10:39 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:10:39 myhost polkitd[1018]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Mar 09 04:10:39 myhost polkitd[1018]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 7 rules Mar 09 16:59:42 myhost polkitd[1018]: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules:21: Error: Error spawning helper: Timed out after 10 seconds (g-io-error-quark, 24) Mar 09 16:59:42 myhost polkitd[1018]: Error evaluating authorization rules Mar 10 04:13:34 myhost polkitd[1018]: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules:21: Error: Error spawning helper: Timed out after 10 seconds (g-io-error-quark, 24) Mar 10 04:13:34 myhost polkitd[1018]: Error evaluating authorization rules Mar 10 04:14:32 myhost polkitd[1018]: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules:21: Error: Error spawning helper: Timed out after 10 seconds (g-io-error-quark, 24) ... (snipped more lines about error evaluating rules)... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The William States Lee College of Engineering 9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 Phone: 704-687-1943 jwedgeco at uncc.edu | http://engr.uncc.edu | Facebook --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 704-687-1943. Thank you.