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FS#56888 - nodm fails to run polkit agents with XFCE - no desktop found error

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by GI Jack (GI_Jack) - Thursday, 28 December 2017, 19:35 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 31 December 2017, 17:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
nodm, an autologin display manager fails to provide a desktop for polkit agents causing them to fail

Additional info:
* package version(s)
community/nodm 0.13-2

tested with the following agents:
community/polkit-gnome 0.105-3
community/lxsession 1:0.5.3-1

And from AUR:
aur/xfce-polkit 0.2-2

* config and/or log files etc.

/etc/nodm.conf
NODM_XSESSION='/usr/bin/startxfce4'

Steps to reproduce:
systemctl enable nodm

now boot into XFCE4 desktop with above. Note that your polkit agent will throw an error, and not work. They all work when manually running xfce4 from bash via normal login
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 31 December 2017, 17:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Likely config issue. Don't run startxfce4 directly
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 28 December 2017, 19:46 GMT
Sounds like a config issue. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nodm

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