On Jun 22 16:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated a server machine from F17 to F18. This server is > running a local VNC session which I connect to via SSH. It's using > an XFCE4 desktop environment. > > The machine is running a lot of virtual machines and so far there > was a virt-manager instance running in the VNC desktop. > > After the upgrade to F18, virt-manager no longer starts: > > Unable to connect to libvirt. > > authentication failed: polkit: Authorization requires authentication > but no agent is available. > > So I checked and, yes, there's actually no agent running, there's no > polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 process, as usual. > > In the XFCE4 Session settings, starting the PolicyKit Authentication > Agent is activated. But polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 simply > doesn't start. When I try to start it from the command line, I only > get an error message: > > $ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 > > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5772): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: > Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 5772 The same message is in the vncserver log file, btw. I'm starting the XFCE4 desktop via `exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch' and ck-launch-session starts and runs. What else can I do?!? Thanks for any help, Corinna -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
