PolicyKit1-KDE

Sefid par · 05-22-2014, 06:19 AM

at every KDE starting I get the message with title of "PolicyKit1-KDE":

Quote:

an application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication is required to perform this action.

and asks for root password.

Details:

Action: Folder Watch limit

How can I find out why this message show, and what to do to get rid of it?

dijetlo · 05-22-2014, 11:12 AM

Hi Sefid, how's life treating you?

Quote:

How can I find out why this message show

It's a bug in KDE as far as I can tell having looked here and here and here.
I didn't dig into all the threads looking for the solution however the one I dig into didn't have one in it.

As far as a best guess as to why it's happening

Quote:

FileWatch: Use KAuth to automatically raise the inotify watch limit if
we run out of watches.

When we run out of watches, use a KAuth action to double the inotify
watch limit (by writing to /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches).
At the same time, make the new setting persist across reboots by writing
/etc/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf.

So a workaround might be look at /proc/sys/fs/inotiy/max_user_watches (mines set to 8192) and tweak it, or perhaps it's your /etc/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf (My Slackware install doesn't have that directory,but I've never booted KDE so...maybe you do.)
IF that doesn't work....
Here's the KDE bug tracker for bugs involving "policykit", or you might post a question on our KDE maintainers blog.

moisespedro · 11-25-2014, 07:33 AM

OP, how did you solve this problem? I am running Slackware 14.1 with KDE 4.13.3 and I am with the same problem.

I tried a few things I've found:

Tweaking:

Code:

# echo 10240 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

It didn't work, the limit was raised but it didn't solve the problem. Now the limit went back to the normal value (8192).

Removing local nepomuk entries:

Code:

$ rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/

It seems this is the solution but Slackware doesn't have /etc/systcl.d. Where are those files located?

EYo · 11-25-2014, 09:22 AM

I don't notice this bug, but permanent settings on Slackware 14.1 can go in /etc/sysctl.conf with

Code:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 10240

then reboot, it's set here

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.S:    /sbin/sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf

I looked for inotify like this

Code:

sysctl -A | grep inotify

and set up sysctl.conf like the man page suggests. HTH

moisespedro · 11-25-2014, 02:57 PM

Thanks, I've set it to 20480 and it worked