Bug 541253

Summary: polkitd seems to leak memory / use high CPU
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley>
Component: OtherAssignee: Kay Sievers <kasievers>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ensonic, fedev, jnelson-suse, jslaby, lchiquitto, lnussel, meissner, ms, szymon.polom
Version: Milestone 7Flags: coolo: SHIP_STOPPER-
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard:
Found By: --- Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: strace output
requested output
pmap output
valgrind --log-file=polkit_valgrind.log --leak-check=full /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd

Description Bart Whiteley 2009-09-23 00:19:20 UTC
top: 

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2173 root      20   0  388m 383m 3064 R   40 12.6  21:17.80 polkitd
18836 bart      20   0  724m 269m  34m S   18  8.9   5:38.45 firefox

It's constantly like this.  Anything that tops firefox has serious problems.
Comment 2 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-23 12:34:33 UTC
Bad memory leak also:

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2173 root      20   0 3059m 2.1g 2132 R    7 71.3 182:43.02 polkitd
Comment 3 Marcus Meissner 2009-09-23 12:36:00 UTC
can you strace it or attach gdbn to see what it does please?
Comment 4 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-23 12:45:49 UTC
Created attachment 319496 [details]
strace output

When I kill polkitd, it immediately starts again, and starts looping and leaking memory.  Here is strace output from just a few seconds of watching the process.
Comment 5 Marcus Meissner 2009-09-23 12:53:29 UTC
seems to repeatedly read the local data files?

is the clock correct?
Comment 6 Marcus Meissner 2009-09-23 12:59:19 UTC
run:
ls -l /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/
date
Comment 7 Ludwig Nussel 2009-09-23 13:01:58 UTC
polkit1 -> kay
Comment 8 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-23 15:22:40 UTC
Created attachment 319533 [details]
requested output

$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/
$ date
Comment 9 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-24 03:06:07 UTC
This appears to be an upgrade issue.  Although I did a clean install of 11.2 m7, I kept my /home partition from 11.1.  

I've since removed the following from $HOME/:
                  .gnome2                     .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
                  .gnome2_private             .gvfs
  .dbus           .gnome-system-monitor.bart  .turnpike
  .dbus-keyrings  .gtk-bookmarks
  .gnome          .gtkrc

Now this problem is no longer present. 

OpenSUSE needs to be fixed to be able to handle upgrades.
Comment 10 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-24 21:51:30 UTC
This problem returned after enabling desktop effects.
Comment 11 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-24 22:29:57 UTC
A possibly useful stack trace. 

#0  0xb7cc4f15 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#1  0xb7cc57ee in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#2  0xb7cc498b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb7c5e6a9 in g_content_type_guess () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb7cb82ab in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb7cb8f37 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb7cb5f0e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb7c73420 in g_file_enumerator_next_file () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb7fe9fae in polkit_backend_local_authorization_store_lookup ()
   from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#9  0xb7fe59b9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#10 0xb7fe201b in polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization_sync () from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#11 0xb7fe4f01 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#12 0xb7fe1953 in polkit_backend_authority_check_authorization ()
   from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#13 0xb7fe1b0c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0
#14 0xb7d475b4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0
#15 0xb7d11152 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libeggdbus-1.so.0
#16 0xb7b97a53 in dbus_connection_dispatch () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
#17 0xb7bd1c0d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
#18 0xb7ef5442 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0xb7ef8d18 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0xb7ef916f in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x0804886a in ?? ()
#22 0xb7d71abe in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#23 0x08048711 in ?? ()
Comment 12 Stephan Kulow 2009-09-25 11:47:21 UTC
what is this blocking?
Comment 13 Bart Whiteley 2009-09-25 15:13:34 UTC
Blocking shipment. 

A process that runs by default, and respawns itself when killed, and leaks memory to the tune of 3GB in a few hours, deserves the most severe bug setting, IMO. 

If Blocker means something else for OpenSUSE, feel free to change it to Critical.
Comment 14 Stephan Binner 2009-09-25 21:08:02 UTC
We have documentation about this: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Definitions
Comment 15 Stephan Kulow 2009-10-05 09:26:51 UTC
but it only happens to you so far and it does not happen for new users, I don't see this as ship stopper
Comment 16 Jiri Slaby 2009-10-05 09:31:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> but it only happens to you so far

Nope, happens to me as well.
Comment 17 Kay Sievers 2009-10-07 14:25:36 UTC
What does:
  pmap $(pidof /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd)
print in case it uses a lot of memory?
Comment 18 Jiri Slaby 2009-10-11 08:13:20 UTC
22272: polkitd
START               SIZE     RSS     PSS   DIRTY    SWAP PERM MAPPING
0000000000400000      4K      0K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
0000000000600000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
0000000000601000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
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00007fce9d413000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so;4acdbcd6
00007fce9d612000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so;4acdbcd6
00007fce9d613000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so;4acdbcd6
00007fce9d821000     92K      0K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
00007fce9d838000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
00007fce9da37000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
00007fce9da38000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
00007fce9e273000      8K      8K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e275000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e475000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e476000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e477000     32K      4K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/librt-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e47f000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/librt-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e67e000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/librt-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e67f000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/librt-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e680000     88K     40K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e696000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e896000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e897000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007fce9e898000     16K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p [anon]
00007fce9e89c000    112K      0K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libselinux.so.1
00007fce9e8b8000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libselinux.so.1
00007fce9eab7000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/libselinux.so.1
00007fce9eab8000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/libselinux.so.1
00007fce9eab9000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p [anon]
00007fce9eaba000     76K      4K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007fce9eacd000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007fce9eccc000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007fce9eccd000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007fce9ecce000      8K      0K      0K      0K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fce9ecd0000     12K      4K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9ecd3000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9eed2000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9eed3000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9eed4000    248K    196K     65K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007fce9ef12000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007fce9f112000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007fce9f113000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007fce9f114000    128K     16K     10K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007fce9f134000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007fce9f334000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007fce9f335000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007fce9f336000    180K      8K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libpcre.so.0.0.1
00007fce9f363000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libpcre.so.0.0.1
00007fce9f562000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K r--p /lib64/libpcre.so.0.0.1
00007fce9f563000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p /lib64/libpcre.so.0.0.1
00007fce9f564000    152K      0K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libexpat.so.1.5.2
00007fce9f58a000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libexpat.so.1.5.2
00007fce9f78a000      8K      8K      8K      8K      0K r--p /lib64/libexpat.so.1.5.2
00007fce9f78c000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /lib64/libexpat.so.1.5.2
00007fce9f78d000    684K    184K     28K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9f838000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9fa38000      8K      4K      4K      4K      4K r--p /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9fa3a000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fce9fa3b000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fce9fa3c000    276K    156K    156K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fa81000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fc81000      8K      8K      8K      8K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fc83000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fc84000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fce9fc85000    124K     56K     27K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fca4000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fea4000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fea5000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007fce9fea6000   1348K    440K     19K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
00007fce9fff7000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
00007fcea01f7000     16K     16K     16K     16K      0K r--p /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
00007fcea01fb000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
00007fcea01fc000     20K     16K     16K     16K      4K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea0201000    788K    348K     13K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea02c6000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea04c5000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea04c6000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea04c7000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea04c8000    272K    216K      4K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea050c000   2044K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea070b000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea070c000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2106.0
00007fcea070d000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea070e000    184K    104K    104K      0K      0K r-xp /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0
00007fcea073c000   2048K      0K      0K      0K      0K ---p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0
00007fcea093c000      8K      8K      8K      8K      0K r--p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0
00007fcea093e000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0
00007fcea093f000    120K     48K      0K      0K      0K r-xp /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
00007fcea0aad000    212K      4K      2K      0K      0K r--s /var/run/nscd/group
00007fcea0ae2000    212K      4K      1K      0K      0K r--s /var/run/nscd/passwd
00007fcea0b17000     32K     16K     16K     16K     16K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea0b37000      4K      0K      0K      0K      4K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea0b38000     28K     24K      1K      0K      0K r--s /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
00007fcea0b3f000    108K     72K     49K      0K      0K r--s /usr/share/mime/mime.cache
00007fcea0b5a000      8K      8K      8K      8K      0K rw-p [anon]
00007fcea0b5c000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K r--p /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
00007fcea0b5d000      4K      4K      4K      4K      0K rw-p /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
00007fff1c1d8000     84K     20K     20K     20K      0K rw-p [stack]
00007fff1c1ff000      4K      4K      0K      0K      0K r-xp [vdso]
ffffffffff600000      4K      0K      0K      0K      0K r-xp [vsyscall]
Total:           163224K 119860K 118399K 117892K    772K

118664K writable-private, 44000K readonly-private, 560K shared, and 118196K referenced
Comment 19 Jiri Slaby 2009-10-11 08:14:20 UTC
Created attachment 321945 [details]
pmap output

Bah, it got ugly line wrapped.
Comment 20 Jiri Slaby 2009-10-11 08:40:04 UTC
Created attachment 321947 [details]
valgrind --log-file=polkit_valgrind.log --leak-check=full /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd

Note that polkitd was running, so this one exited immediately. There are many leaks though.
Comment 21 Federico Vecchiarelli 2009-11-17 11:23:50 UTC
I upgraded both, my notebook and my desktop. On my desktop (x86 version) polkitd is number 1 on top as soon as I log on. It comes to the point that my desktop icons won't load until I kill it (maybe it would work after a long time).

I will check on my laptop because I didn't notice this issue right after upgrading.
Comment 22 Federico Vecchiarelli 2009-11-17 14:44:15 UTC
My laptop doesn't seem to have the problem. Just out of curiosity, what are you all using (x86 or x64)?
Comment 23 Kay Sievers 2010-01-18 13:25:35 UTC
I can not reproduce anything similar to the mentioned problem. There also seem to be no reports for other distributions shipping the same software.

New version submitted to factory, which need to be re-checked if it still happens, although there are no changes/fixes to this problem. I'm closing this bug for now.
Comment 24 Jon Nelson 2010-03-23 15:33:23 UTC
I'm having this problem too.
I have some additional information which might be useful.
I'm also on 11.2


When I killed one of the polkitd processes, this showed up in /var/log/messages:

Mar 23 15:25:48 worklaptop rtkit-daemon[2588]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

it *may* have to do with rtkit-daemon:


Also, I noticed via strace that polkitd is logging a *LOT* of information, but it's going nowhere because stdin/stdout/stderr are tied to /dev/null (as they should be) but polkit ***really*** needs to be able to log to syslog *or* the logs being sent to stderr need to be captured and sent there.  Logs sent nowhere don't do anybody any good.

Partial strace:

open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "\n** (process:6681): WARNING **: Error enumerating files in file:///var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d: No such file or directory\n", 135) = 135
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "\n** (process:6681): WARNING **: Error enumerating files in file:///var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d: No such file or directory\n", 136) = 136
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "\n** (process:6681): WARNING **: Error enumerating files in file:///var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d: No such file or directory\n", 137) = 137
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "\n** (process:6681): WARNING **: Error enumerating files in file:///var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d: No such file or directory\n", 141) = 141
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 6
getdents64(6, /* 144 entries */, 32768) = 10168
getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 32768)   = 0
lstat("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-high-priority.pkla", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=203, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-high-priority.pkla", O_RDONLY) = 7
read(7, "[org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-high-priority]\nIdentity=unix-user:*\nAction=org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-high-priority\nResultAny=auth_admin\nResultInactive=auth_admin\nResultActive=auth_admin\n", 4066) = 203
close(7)                                = 0
lstat("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-real-time.pkla", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=195, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-real-time.pkla", O_RDONLY) = 7
read(7, "[org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-real-time]\nIdentity=unix-user:*\nAction=org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-real-time\nResultAny=auth_admin\nResultInactive=auth_admin\nResultActive=auth_admin\n", 4066) = 195
close(7)                                = 0
lstat("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users.pkla", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=218, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users.pkla", O_RDONLY) = 7
read(7, "[org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users]\nIdentity=unix-user:*\nAction=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users\nResultAny=auth_admin_keep\nResultInactive=auth_admin_keep\nResultActive=yes\n", 4066) = 218
close(7)                                = 0


The core of the issue might be that I have pulseaudio configured to use real time priority:


2010-03-23T15:32:31.48696 I: core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: Permission denied
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48699 I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48701 I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48712 I: main.c: Machine ID is 960950afac61217d5c079a0047faf324.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48724 I: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/jnelson/.pulse/960950afac61217d5c079a0047faf324-runtime.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48729 I: main.c: Using state directory /home/jnelson/.pulse.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48729 I: main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib64/pulse-0.9.21/modules.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48730 I: main.c: Running in system mode: no
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48745 E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.48746 E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
2010-03-23T15:32:31.50706 I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
2010-03-23T15:32:31.50709 I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted



As soon as I stop pulseaudio the polkit issue goes away.
So, for me, it seems it goes

pulseaudio asks for realtime -> rtkit -> polkit -> polkit barfs -> rtkit says no -> pulseaudio exits -> loop!
Comment 25 Kay Sievers 2010-03-23 18:43:38 UTC
Please put:
  autospawn=no
in:
 /etc/pulse/client.conf

Kill PA:
  pulseaudio -k

restart PA:
  pulseaudio -vvvvvvvC

and paste the output here in the hope it tells us why it exists, which it shouldn't.
Comment 26 Stefan Sauer 2010-03-28 15:25:50 UTC
I get this occationally too and will try to get results, the next time it happens. I have two (real) users on my system and it mostly seems to happen when I log out from one session and log in as the other user. I have not seen it on first login after a clean boot.
Comment 27 Jon Nelson 2010-04-20 15:43:26 UTC
2010-04-20T15:43:12.66486 E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
2010-04-20T15:43:12.66489 E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Comment 28 Kay Sievers 2010-07-18 21:34:46 UTC
Closing this bug again, because of lack of idea how to fix it or where to look for. openSUSE 11.3 is released. If possible, please check if the problem still exists.

I was never able to reproduce anything, and upstream has no reports about such problems from other distributions.
Comment 29 Szymon Polom 2010-07-19 16:14:22 UTC
I ran into this today after upgrading from 11.2 to 11.3. After killing the daemon a couple of times and then removing ~/.dbus the problem seems to have went away. Will report if it occurs again.