Subject: polkitd: fails to upgrade - Failed to open 'polkitd.conf' File not found

From: Arthur Marsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:03:25 +1030

Package: polkitd
Version: 121+compat0.1-6devuan1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

trying to upgrade polkitd on Devuan unstable on i386 architecture

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Setting up polkitd (121+compat0.1-6devuan1) ...
Failed to open 'polkitd.conf', ignoring: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package polkitd (--configure):
 installed polkitd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up python3-asgiref (3.5.2-2) ...
Setting up python3-cffi-backend:i386 (1.15.1-3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of polkitd-pkla:
 polkitd-pkla depends on polkitd (>= 121+compat0.1); however:
  Package polkitd is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package polkitd-pkla (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up hannah (1.0-3.3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pkexec:
 pkexec depends on polkitd (= 121+compat0.1-6devuan1); however:
  Package polkitd is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pkexec (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of policykit-1:
 policykit-1 depends on pkexec (= 121+compat0.1-6devuan1); however:
  Package pkexec is not configured yet.
 policykit-1 depends on polkitd (= 121+compat0.1-6devuan1); however:
  Package polkitd is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package policykit-1 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rtkit:
 rtkit depends on policykit-1; however:
  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package rtkit (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of blueman:
 blueman depends on policykit-1; however:
  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package blueman (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of modemmanager:
 modemmanager depends on policykit-1; however:
  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package modemmanager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:	5
Codename:	daedalus ceres
Architecture: i686

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii  adduser                                              3.129
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]                       1.14.4-1devuan1
ii  libc6                                                2.35-3
ii  libduktape207                                        2.7.0-1+b1
ii  libelogind0                                          246.10-5
ii  libexpat1                                            2.4.9-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                         2.74.0-3
ii  libpam-elogind [logind]                              246.10-5
ii  libpam0g                                             1.5.2-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                                  121+compat0.1-6devuan1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 [libpolkit-gobject-1-  121+compat0.1-6devuan1
ii  xml-core                                             0.18+nmu1

Versions of packages polkitd recommends:
ii  polkit-kde-agent-1 [polkit-1-auth-agent]  4:5.26.0-1

Versions of packages polkitd suggests:
iu  polkitd-pkla  121+compat0.1-6devuan1

Versions of packages polkitd is related to:
ii  dummy-systemd-dev [systemd]      0.2
ii  elogind                          246.10-5
ii  libpam-elogind [libpam-systemd]  246.10-5

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