Over the last few months I've had problems with the gnome authorization dialog failing, sometimes intermittently and sometimes consistently for long periods of time. The dialog I'm referring to is the one that pops up when root access is needed to run an application or control panel. Examples are System/Preferences/Authorizations, running the virtual machine manager, running lots of control panels from System/Administration/* It turns out that eventually polkit-gnome-manager is called. It uses inotify to put a watch on /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf. In my case, placing the watch was failing, which meant no authorization. A workaround is to bump up the 8192 limit to something higher echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches I'm still a bit mystified as to what is using all the watches. Before and after the echo lsof only reports less than 32 watches on my system. Other than lsof there don't appear to be an tools to show who is consuming the watches. If nobody has an suggestions, I may try systemtap. I'm not sure at this point that it makes sense to bump up the kernel default without knowing the current culprit. The bottom line: with policykit being used more heavily in rawhide, if you're getting strange intermittent permissions failures, try the workaround. darrell -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
