polkit

Hi, Up until recently I've been using a YubiKey to hold a GPG auth key, to access bhyve VMs, home LAN servers, etc. I'm currently running FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 with a YubiKey 5 Nano. This was working well, but today (after having upgraded base and packages), I'm seeing the following error...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me troubleshoot this issue I'm seeing with cpu-x 4.5.3, running XFCE 4.18 on 14.0-RELEASE-p3. I installed the cpu-x binary package 4.5.3_1, and normally pressing the "Start daemon" GUI button should prompt for a password and then start cpu-x-daemon, located at...

I did a # pkg upgrade today and in the process a few packages including polkit got upgraded (polkit to 124). After rebooting I keep getting this error repeatedly in /var/log/messages Jan 23 14:27:12 mypc console-kit-daemon[94016]: CRITICAL: polkit_authority_check_authorization: assertion...

Not sure this is the correct forum to ask this question, but i'm having a heck of time figuring out how to remove the suspend options in the leave menu of kde5 plasma. I'm finding a lot of varying information about polkit stuff which i haven't worked with before, but everything I've tried...

Hi everybody, I have some difficulties to install global themes. Investigating, I've found out sddm theme installation was the cause. Performing sddmthemeinstaller -i ....zip exits with 255. As causing system-wide modification, I've guessed it could be a authorization trouble. Indeed, sudo...

Since the last upgrade to MATE (I use packages - not ports) on my FreeBSD 11.1 desktop, the Shutdown/Reboot option under the System menu has gone missing. If I login as root the menu item appears as expected. I do not see the menu item when I am logged in as a regular system user, who is also...