[BRLTTY] problem with brltty and polkit

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Kelly Prescott on 2017/04/27 at 15:50 -0500]

>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.

My initial guess is that you aren't building on a system that has polkit's 
development package. Do you have the header /usr/include/polkit-1/polkit.h on 
the system wehreon you did your manual build?

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