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Old 04-06-2024, 06:05 AM   #1
larsvanmaanen
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LabWC fails to start in current - related to the recent polkit rebuild?


As of recently, the wlroots-based wayland compositor (and convincing Openbox replacement) LabWC 0.7.1 fails to start on Slackware current. I returns the following error/warning messages:

Code:
[libseat] [libseat/backend/logind.c:310] Could not activate session: Launch helper with unknown return code 127
[libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:79] No backend was able to open a seat
[backend/session/session.c:83] Unable to create seat: Function not implemented
[backend/session/session.c:248] Failed to load session backend
[backend/backend.c:79] Failed to start a session
[backend/backend.c:359] Failed to start a DRM session
[../src/server.c:255] unable to create backend
The moment my labwc stopped working apparently coincides with a recent polkit rebuild: polkit now uses duktape as its javascript engine instead of mozjs. In order to test whether this rebuild has anything to do with it, I built polkit locally using the official slackscript, but with the meson switch "-Djs_engine=mozjs" instead of "-Djs_engine=duktape", hoping to revert the change.

With my locally build polkit, labwc still doesn't start, but gives the following error:

Code:
[../src/server.c:255] unable to create backend devicesabled at compile-time
I get this same error also when I try starting LabWC using the seatd backend instead of elogind, bypassing polkit altogether.

Can anyone shed some light on how to solve these issues?
 
Old 04-06-2024, 02:01 PM   #2
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I don't think it's LabWC 0.7.1. I'm running it right now, restarted a few hours ago, and I'm Current as of yesterday. I start it with "seatd-launch labwc" from the command line (like startx).
 
  


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