Created attachment 880091 [details] emerge --info sys-auth/elogind sys-auth/elogind-252.9 has USE "policykit" as PDEPEND only, it's not influencing emesonargs. As a result, elogind is built WITH polkit support even though polkit is not installed. This leads to libseat error when attempting to activate seat: $ LIBSEAT_BACKEND=logind hikari 00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/backend/logind.c:317] Could not activate session: Permission denied 00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:58] Backend 'logind' failed to open seat: Permission denied 00:00:00.000 [backend/session/session.c:84] Unable to create seat: Permission denied 00:00:00.000 [backend/session/session.c:249] Failed to load session backend 00:00:00.000 [backend/backend.c:86] Failed to start a session 00:00:00.000 [backend/backend.c:352] Failed to start a DRM session error: could not create backend Looking on "# dbus-monitor --system", it's evident that non-existing org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 is called: method call time=1703069235.410501 sender=:1.15 -> destination=org.freedesktop.login1 serial=8 path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32; interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session; member=Activate method call time=1703069235.410581 sender=:1.0 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=98 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=GetConnectionUnixUser string ":1.15" method return time=1703069235.410584 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.0 serial=16 reply_serial=98 uint32 1000 method call time=1703069235.410711 sender=:1.0 -> destination=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 serial=99 path=/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority; interface=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority; member=CheckAuthorization struct { string "system-bus-name" array [ dict entry( string "name" variant string ":1.15" ) ] } string "org.freedesktop.login1.chvt" array [ ] uint32 0 string "" error time=1703069235.410732 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.0 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown reply_serial=99 string "The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files" error time=1703069235.410775 sender=:1.0 -> destination=:1.15 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied reply_serial=8 string "Permission denied" As per [1] the only way to remove polkit support is "-Dpolkit=false". When I modify ebuild in local overlay: --- /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-252.9.ebuild 2023-08-26 18:10:30.000000000 +0200 +++ /var/db/repos/local/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-252.9-r1.ebuild 2023-12-20 11:49:47.620171264 +0100 @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ -Drootprefix="${EPREFIX}/" -Dbashcompletiondir="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions" -Dman=auto + -Dpolkit=$(usex policykit auto false) -Dsmack=true -Dcgroup-controller=openrc -Ddefault-hierarchy=${cgroupmode} it indeed helps - libseat is able to activate seat, there are no more calls to "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1" and therefore I don't have to use seatd daemon to start hikari. I guess this would benefit all users of wlroots-based compositors with no polkit installed. [1] https://github.com/elogind/elogind/issues/206
