On a newly installed system with Ubuntu 8.10 you will see these kind of lines in /var/log/syslog:
Nov 24 01:12:31 sirius console-kit-daemon[9837]: CRITICAL: cannot initialize libpolkit
The error will repeat every ten minute or so and the fix to this issue is to install policy-kit, i.e.:
sudo apt-get install policykit
This is described in more detail on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/275432
7 replies on “Ubuntu 8.10 – libpolkit error”
Thank you. It was an annoying bug…
Thanks! Worked like a charm!
Thanks! it’s good now.
best regards
Marc
Great! Thanks!!
Thanks – I was irritated by these errors.
I have to say, I had search and find this page too.
You guy had comment-out see wrong the problem.
It’s not a bug, it’s a message of console-kit-daemon witch not using policykit that all, not a bug, just a info message.
Thank you
i agree with Rui Andrada, it’s not a bug. the system want to tell us that we need libpolkit to run the program.