There's been a few bugs about an expected error from polkit: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873799 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872166 The error is: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available. The error means that polkit needs a password, but there is no polkit agent registered in your session. Polkit agents are the bit of UI that pop up and actually ask for your password. Preface the error with the string 'polkit:' so folks can hopefully make more sense of it. --- daemon/remote.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon/remote.c b/daemon/remote.c index 41b8ea8..f85dae0 100644 --- a/daemon/remote.c +++ b/daemon/remote.c @@ -2887,9 +2887,10 @@ error: if (authdismissed) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_CANCELLED, "%s", _("authentication cancelled by user")); + } else if (pkout && *pkout) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "polkit: %s", pkout); } else { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "%s", - pkout && *pkout ? pkout : _("authentication failed")); + virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "%s", _("authentication failed")); } VIR_FREE(pkout); -- 1.8.0.2 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list