Kde4 and policykit(Solved with hal placement)

Recent (yesterday and today) installed 2010-05 .iso to two devices.
System is x86_64 core 2 duo pentium 4.
Each install of kde4 took 2 full hours.
After boot to desktop, a warning message appears stating that policykit was not installed.
After several reboots, the system became unuseable..the desktop not available...just a white display.
This happened three times with three separate installs.  That is a lot of downloading and installing.
One examination of kde system settings showed an empty file.
The latest failure came after install of pacman 2.4.2.0 and performing ..pacman -Syy....  install of xorg, kde4,firefox, gparted, gksu, mirage, and vlc was performed before the eventual policykit problem produced the white display.  Thus, pacman performed and the internet was functional.
Thus the system was originally running, internet also but on the last reboot the system came up with the white display after reporting the policykit problem again.
This whole shebang happened with three separate installs using different mirrors for the downloads.
The last download of kde4 was done after upgrading pacman to 3.4.2.0 but the problem recurred.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2010-07-08 03:26:30)

Have you polkit, polkit-kde and polkit-kde installed? have you install and run at startup hal and dbus before kdm?
I think don't understood your problem, but the policykit package no longer exists... instead of it now exist which mention above.
more info: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90901
Last edited by takedown (2010-07-08 00:52:08)

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