Author: intrigeri Date: To: David Fifield CC: Tails list for early testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Experience installing Tails 2.0.1 using
tails-installer
David Fifield wrote (20 Feb 2016 10:01:15 GMT) : > I probably don't have polkit set up correctly. I remember experimenting
> with some custom settings, so my configuration isn't typical. This is
> what it says (I entered 1 at the first prompt): > $ pkexec whoami
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
> Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/whoami' as the super user
> Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
> 1. david,,, (david)
> 2. user
> Choose identity to authenticate as (1-2): 1
> Password:
> polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
> ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
> Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
Yes, indeed it seems that your session has polkit wrongly configured,
somehow :/ It would be interesting to retry in a full-blown desktop
environment that sets up these things for you, like GNOME or KDE.
