Upgrade Problem

[pavroo]

Ok, the point is that sparky-polkit runs policykit-1-gnome or lxpolkit whatever you have installed, but... no one runs on your machine, so...

Try to run it manualy to find where is a problem (in a terminal emulator to see output):

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sparky-polkit
then:

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pidof polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
if the output shows pid number - it's ok, try to mount your ntfs disk/partition.

If not, run:

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/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
then:

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pidof polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
if the output shows pid number - it's ok, try to mount your ntfs disk/partition.
and let me know whatever happend.

[dhinds]

Ok, the point is that sparky-polkit runs policykit-1-gnome or lxpolkit whatever you have installed, but... no one runs on your machine, so...

Try to run it manualy to find where is a problem (in a terminal emulator to see output):

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sparky-polkit
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$ sparky-polkit

shows:

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$ Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

That's the problem (at least to start with).

[pavroo]

ok, what about the second one?
If not, run:
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

then:
pidof polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

or run:
lxpolkit

[dhinds]

$ pidof polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

returns

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6701

And all of a sudden everything works!

[pavroo]

ok, so add the line:

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/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
to the file:

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~HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
Then reboot to check it out.

talking about the Xlib error, check here:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73028

[dhinds]

Running sparky-polkit seemed to fix it.

Now I get no error message when I run it-

Do I still need to add:

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/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
to the fil

to the

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.config/openbox/autostart.sh

File?

[pavroo]

If you haven't added the line to openbox autostart yet, but after rebooting everything works - you do not have to add it.

[dhinds]

If you haven't added the line to openbox autostart yet, but after rebooting everything works - you do not have to add it.

You did a great job, pavroo.

Much appreciated.

Sparky is the best debian derivative by far and the most complete OS I have installed, at present.

It's what I use most (except for the rare times it is down).

[dhinds]

My system is now working but not as it should be.

Although I followed your (pavroo's) instructions, polkit is not autoloading.

That's not a big problem since I run the xfce4-panel at bottom and loaded what I need to do first to it's favorites list.

Tint2 (up top) doesn't load either so I load that first and from there run sparky-polkit with gexec.

My wallpaper doesn't load either so I run Nitrogen also from the favorites list.

The system is hanging up more often causing me to reboot.

Which polkit is best?

I purchased a new hard drive Saturday and may reinstall the most multimedia edition from scratch.

Would it run well with either a large Btrfs or ZFS partition, or is ext4 recommended?

Thanks in advance.

[penguin]

My system is now working but not as it should be.

Although I followed your (pavroo's) instructions, polkit is not autoloading.

That's not a big problem since I run the xfce4-panel at bottom and loaded what I need to do first to it's favorites list.

Tint2 (up top) doesn't load either so I load that first and from there run sparky-polkit with gexec.

My wallpaper doesn't load either so I run Nitrogen also from the favorites list.

The system is hanging up more often causing me to reboot.

Which polkit is best?

I purchased a new hard drive Saturday and may reinstall the most multimedia edition from scratch.

Would it run well with either a large Btrfs or ZFS partition, or is ext4 recommended?

Thanks in advance.

dhimbs ?

can you explain . what debian you have installed ? 4 or 5?
personally I have installed sparky stable 4(xfce) times ago. No problem at all.

my advice.
install one version. do not mix things ( some people install one version/desktop and mix with other things from other desktops. for example - one insyall lxde or lxqt desktop and after mix with utilities from xfce )
about hanging and reboot.
are you sure that distro you downloaded has right HASH?( check md5 or other hash).
are you sure that you have no any problem with heating, memory and so on.
can you post your inxi -F?

[pavroo]

If you change nothing in your openbox autostart.sh, the most probably problem would be with broken updates, so show me:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

[dhinds]

dhimbs ?

can you explain . what debian you have installed ? 4 or 5?
personally I have installed sparky stable 4(xfce) times ago. No problem at all.

my advice.
install one version. do not mix things ( some people install one version/desktop and mix with other things from other desktops. for example - one insyall lxde or lxqt desktop and after mix with utilities from xfce )
about hanging and reboot.
are you sure that distro you downloaded has right HASH?( check md5 or other hash).
are you sure that you have no any problem with heating, memory and so on.
can you post your inxi -F?
[/quote]

Thank you for your point of view and suggestions.

But Xfce, LXDE and LXQt are modular and I have been mixing them for years.

And am using Sparky Multimedia Testing which has no Desktop Environment.

Sparky is and has been for years the best (and only) Debian I use.

Thanks again.

[dhinds]

If you change nothing in your openbox autostart.sh, the most probably problem would be with broken updates, so show me:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

I updated and upgraded yesterday with no problems other than what I mentioned above.

I'll try it again and post the results.

[dhinds]

(The most probable cause of the problem ...)

[pavroo]

if your upgrade went ok, but the openbox autostart doesn't start, so...
Run it manually:

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~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
show the output and say whatever happend.