findings on networkmanager/polkit/consolekit/arm

[Marco Martin]

Hi all,

so, today i tried to figure out a why networkmanager is not working on arm and 
only arm.

turns out the problem is polkit. so not only networkmanager doesn't work, but 
anything that requires authentication 
apparently polkit depends from consolekit to identify who belongs to the same 
session and who doesn't, except that now doesn't use consolekit anymore but 
systemd.

in kde, not exactly sure in what part of the stack, systemd is still not 
supported (or better, is not supported the act to telling to systemd a what is 
the currently running session)

what happens is that the kde polkit authentication agent fails with this 
message
polkit_agent_listener_register: assertion `POLKIT_IS_SUBJECT (subject) failed

so, i tried to rebuild the polkit package making it still use consolekit 
(could even be used until a real solution is found?)

the status i have now is:
if i manually launch ck-launch-session, then from the same terminal relaunch 
the authentication agent it does connect.

if now i launch an application that uses polkit, like the time settings dialog 
it works correctly and i can actually change the time.
i still didn't manage at all to make polkit authenticate for networkmanager 
(reued to restart kded, plasma-device but nothing)


so, that's basically how far i could push it, 
this session registration part has to be fixed.

it's still misterious why this happens only on arm and not on x86, so... 
ideas? ;)


Cheers,
Marco Martin