Polkit depends on sound?

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Hello there :waving_hand:

I just had a weird regression during an update on CachyOS where after the reboot, the audio devices were gone. Turns out wireplumber was segfaulting b/c of libspa-libcamera. I’m circumventing that for now by removing libcamera.

However, during all of this, I noticed I couldn’t start btrfs-assistant from the start menu. I’d see polkit in my task bar, but the window wouldn’t show up. After removing libcamera and restarting wireplumber, polkit would show up again.

So how does this influence polkit? Does it play a notification sound? (They don’t seem to work currently).
If yes, maybe it shouldn’t have this hard dependency on sound.

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This sounds likely to be more of an underlying system component/packaging issue than something at the KDE Plasma level - looks like you’re also engaged at the right place for this, in the distribution forums :slight_smile:

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My concern is that polkit seems to be dependent on sound functioning.
Are you telling me this dependency is not a KDE concern?

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That’s correct. Neither Polkit nor the audio stack come from KDE.

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Ah I see now, polkit is part of fd.o
Thanks. I’ll take my concern there :slight_smile: