Failed to start polkit.service

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Let me work on my own problem solving steps with this. I am using a test machine in VirtualBox that was installed as 4.3 and upgraded to 5.0.

  1. Check that system is up to date:

    $ sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf dsync

  2. Remove any left over unused packages that had been originally installed as dependencies:

    $ sudo dnf autoremove

  3. Check the package versions for the polkit package stack:

$ rpm -qa | grep polkit
lib64polkit-gobject1_0-123-1.znver1
lib64polkit-agent1_0-123-1.znver1
lib64polkit-qt5-core-1_1-0.114.0-1.znver1
lib64polkit-qt5-agent-1_1-0.114.0-1.znver1
lib64polkit-qt6-core-1_1-0.114.1-0.20230513.1.znver1
systemd-polkit-254.5-1.znver1
polkit-123-1.znver1
polkit-kde-agent-1-5.27.9-1.znver1

The packages shown are what I have on my test system which is not showing a problem with polkit.service.

  1. polkit is a systemd service so we can check it’s status with systemctl command:

    $ systemctl status polkit

  2. I would then try to stop and restart polkit service and see if I get lucky and that corrects the issue or produces any output related the issue.

  3. If there is still an issue at this point I am over my head knowledge wise and I go to OpenMandriva chat and ask for help there.

Note: This is what systemctl status polkit shows on my test system:

$ systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-12-03 09:46:03 -05; 1min 51s ago
       Docs: man:polkit(8)
   Main PID: 803 (polkitd)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 4595)
     Memory: 8.5M
        CPU: 145ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service
             └─803 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug

Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 systemd[1]: Starting polkit.service - Authorization Manager...
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Started polkitd version 123
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 6 rules
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 systemd[1]: Started polkit.service - Authorization Manager.
Dec 03 09:46:03 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
Dec 03 09:46:07 43t050-x86 polkitd[803]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.35 [/usr/lib64/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org>

To stop and start polkit or any systemd service:

systemctl stop polkit
systemctl start polkit

Or you can use restart:

systemctl restart polkit

In either case after doing that I check that everything looks OK with systemctl status polkit.

In your journal output there is also something that may or may not be related:

Dez 03 12:58:27 VM-OpenMandriva systemd-coredump[1437]: Process 1431 (udisksd) of user 0 dumped core.

That is a question for the folks at OpenMandriva Chat. They would want to see that pastebin.

Edit to correct copy and paste error: The correct command to check versions of the polkit package stack is rpm -qa | grep polkit. Apologies for not noticing this when I posted.