Sorry for the delay - I've been on travel for several weeks and just now am getting back to troubleshooting this.
Per Sebastien Bacher's suggestion:
$ polkit-auth --show-obtainable <doesn't output anything>
-$ ck-list-sessions <doesn't output anything>
-$ cat /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1"> <match user="root"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <define_admin_auth group="admin"/> </config>
Sorry for the delay - I've been on travel for several weeks and just now am getting back to troubleshooting this.
Per Sebastien Bacher's suggestion:
$ polkit-auth --show-obtainable
<doesn't output anything>
-$ ck-list-sessions
<doesn't output anything>
-$ cat /etc/PolicyKit/ PolicyKit. conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop //DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN" hal.freedesktop .org/releases/ PolicyKit/ 1.0/config. dtd">
"http://
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1"> admin_auth group="admin"/>
<match user="root">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<define_
</config>