Hail to yee all!
@ Fungalnet: Thank you for your welcoming word, that's pretty nice to hear. Especially coming from the commited, devoted & courageous creator (?) and main contributor of an already legendary resource. I've been reading your papers quite regularly since 2017, if my memory serves me well. Just had never posted anything before, though. (I may find some time, one of these days, to introduce myself in the adequate place.)
@ Jean-Michel: Thank you again for your commitment, diligence and expertise. Your post --and your code corrections!-- really saved my day two days ago! I was so desperate I was (almost) prepared to fresh-reinstall another system on my box. It would have been such a pity! I much like Obarun. I also much like this
boomerang irony of the fact that Obarun, which is Arch, lets you run a systemd-free Arch, i.e. a clean version of one of
the distros above all that avantgarded the spreading of bloody systemd by defaulting it very early, in the name of bleeding edge so-called "progress".
Now to the matter... I have nothing to complain about. None of the three problems have reappeared. They're gone. Still, something curious may be worth mentioning.
I've done it all, all the way you advise to do. The resulting installed versions of
polkit and
dbus are indeed
0.116-10 and
1.12.16-10, respectively. Alright.
Now, of all the commands you provide in the 1st post, one (and one only) gives a strange output:
giu@ Obarun ~> ls -l /etc/polkit-1
total 4
drwx------ 2 polkitd polkitd 4096 10 oct. 06:44 rules.d/
This October date seems a bit strange, doesn't it?
Just for informational feedback. Once again, as for my problems, they're resolved.
Keep on the good work, fellows.
Regards