[BRLTTY] problem with brltty and polkit

[Kelly Prescott]

Sure enough, if I change brltty to use the brlapi.key file, it works fine.
I would like to get the polkit working, however.
Thanks for your suggestion, as I can at least use it while I try to figure 
out the correct fix for polkit.

kp



On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Shérab wrote:

> Dear Kelly,
>
> Kelly Prescott (2017/04/27 15:50 -0500):
>> I am running brltty on archlinux.
>> Text mode works fine, but brlapi which orca needs does not appear to work
>> anymore.
>> It worked in 5.4.
>> When I start the daemon I get:
>> 
>> --log--
>> Apr 27 15:15:14 io.coolip.net brltty[383]: BrlAPI Server: release 0.6.6
>> Apr 27 15:15:14 io.coolip.net brltty[383]: unknown
>> authentication/authorization method: polkit
>> Apr 27 15:15:14 io.coolip.net brltty[383]: Unable to start auth server
>> --endlog--
>> I have the file org.a11y.brlapi.policy in /usr/share/polkit1/actions
>> When I manually build the package, I can see that polkit support appears to
>> be included as the config.log says it is.
>
> But then, is it the brltty you have just built that you are running, or
> another one?
>
> If it is the one you have just built and if, once it is run it can't
> find polkit while configure seemed happy, could it be that the polkit
> daemon has not been started on your system?
>
>> Any suggestions about how to fix this would be helpful.
>
> I know nothing about polkit unfortunately so I can't help much more with
> this.
>
> Another route you could try is using a different authentication method.
> For instance, you could run brltty with arguments -A auth=none to
> disable authentication completely.
>
> Shérab.
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