PolicyKit and ConsoleKit issues

[Ahmed Toulan]

I guess you have more than just one problem.

Tell me, did u create a user without giving him any privileges and didn't
add him to proper groups ?

If so try opening System -> Administration -> Users and Groups and give your
user the necessary privileges. If that doesn't work try running, one of the
GUI app that refuse to run, from the shell and give us the resulted error.

Best regards,
Ahmed Toulan.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Angie T. Muhammad
<angie.tawfik at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello Guys
> Ramadan Kareem :)
>
> For one week I've been experiencing problems with my ubuntu 9.04 desktop.
> Since its last update, I experienced these symptoms:
> - NetworkManager and Bluetooth services though supposedly working ('#
> service NetworkManager status' returns it's running) they never appear on
> GUI.
> - wlan0 and sound card are no longer working > I solved the sound card
> thing by adding my user account to necessary audio groups but the sound is
> now fuzzy.
> - Once the screen is locked, it refuses to unlock using the correct
> password > I swear the password is right because it works on command line
> doing an su - $USER.
> I tried this with 3 different accounts, and the same passwords work
> peacefully when logging in after rebooting but NOT when the screen is
> locked.
> - Most of GUI utilities like HW testing produce errors and refuse to start.
>
> I'm attaching the my /var/log/messages .. I highly suspect ConsoleKit and
> PolicyKit for the troubles as the file explains.. since console kit is
> responsible for sessions, seats and users authentication while policy kit is
> responsible for having unprivileged processes speak with privileged ones.. I
> think both kits are denying me many aspects of the system. I noticed that
> console-kit-daemon wasn't running and on my many attempts it refuses to
> start.
>
> I did an # dpkg --status consolekit
> and found the package is optional.. but trying # apt-get purge consolekit
> showed that it will remove around 60 packages mostly gnome. The same thing
> applies to policykit.. I'm in a bad need of getting my system healthy
> again.. Your help is really appreciated guys and you may "yenobko fia thawab
> :D "
>
> N.B: writing from CentOS
>
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> Angie
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