[Nix-dev] PolicyKit timeout after upgrade to 16.03

[4levels]

Hi Roger,

I did find a workaround by disabling polkit alltogether.
 security.polkit.enable = false
As soon as I re-enable polkit, the issue is back again.
I will still file an issue for this, for now the systems work without
polkit.

As the servers are never running X, I'm still unsure if I need polkit at
all.
I do however use wkhtmltopdf which includes libX to be able to render PDF
documents from an HTML output.

Kind regards,

Erik

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:27 AM Roger Qiu <roger.qiu at matrix.ai> wrote:

> You should try rolling back on the instance causing problems. By that I
> mean rolling back on the system generation (at boot loader) not channel
> generation. If it still has a problem, then something imperative occurred
> and perhaps you can force rebuild the system (I forgot whether there's a
> flag for this, or just deleting the some stuff would work)... also there's
> some commands to check package integrity. You should always try to minimise
> any imperative configuration (beyond disk and device setup as there's no
> "nix-bootstrap") so things can be reproducible.
> On 19/04/2016 12:19 AM, "4levels" <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> the weird thing is that my local vm, the machine that actually deploys
>> the servers, doesn't have this issue.  This instance also runs nixos-16.03
>> and uses the same nixos-16.03-small channel.
>>
>> This issue started when trying to upgrade to 16.03  I was not really
>> clear about how to do this so I ended up running nix-channel add ... nixos
>> on all deployed servers, causing all the nixops deployed config to be lost,
>> resulting in having to redeploy every server.  Currently I'm still unsure
>> how to upgrade machines deployed with nixops :-(
>>
>> I don't mind redeploying every machine to solve this, as the issues are
>> piling up now: I need to reboot a server because I can't do any systemctl
>> call anymore that requires root privileges.  Even when first switching to
>> the root account (I know the password), this issue persists.  I'm still
>> completely unsure where this issue comes from.  Googling this error "Error
>> getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling
>> StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached
>> (g-io-error-quark, 24)" gives me tons of pages with polkit, dbus and
>> systemd things that go far beyond my understandings.
>>
>> When running the polkit service with strace, I can see loads of errors
>> about files not being found and the trace ends with
>>
>> write(2, "Error switcing to user polkituse"..., 98Error switcing to user
>> polkituser: Error changing to home directory /var/empty: Permission denied
>> ) = 98
>>
>> Please find attached the full strace log.  I really hope someone can
>> assist further in this nasty issue.  Maybe it is related to the use of
>> nixos-16.03-small instead of nixos-16.03.  But since I'm using nixos for
>> servers only, without the need for a desktop environment, I was expecting
>> the small channel to be better..
>>
>> Kind regards!
>>
>> Erik
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:57 PM Roger Qiu <roger.qiu at matrix.ai> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried rolling back to 15.09, does it still happen?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/04/2016 4:47 PM, 4levels wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Nix'ers,
>>>
>>> No one? Im I the only one who's experiencing this?
>>>
>>> This timeout still occurs and makes every call to systemctl at least 30
>>> seconds slower, pretty annoying actually..
>>>
>>> Hope someone with understanding can shed some light on what might be
>>> going on here.
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:00 AM 4levels < <4levels at gmail.com>
>>> 4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nix'ers,
>>>>
>>>> After upgrading to version 16.03 I'm facing timeouts whenever I try to
>>>> restart a service via systemctl restart.
>>>> I might be overlooking something obvious here, as I just ran
>>>> nix-channel-add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.03-small nixos
>>>> nixos-rebuild boot --upgrade
>>>>
>>>> Any hints in what could be the issue?
>>>> This is the full error message on the console:
>>>>
>>>> Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling
>>>> StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached
>>>> (g-io-error-quark, 24)
>>>>
>>>> I can run other commands through sudo though.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Erik
>>>>
>>>>
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