How to raise polkit?

Question

linux

After updating the system, some services stopped starting, which depend on asking:
dbus

systemctl status dbus
● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Вт 2018-05-15 11:28:05 +09; 2min 48s ago
     Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
 Main PID: 22477 (dbus-daemon)
    Tasks: 1
   Memory: 800.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
           └─22477 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

systemd[1]: Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
systemd[1]: Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
dbus[22477]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
dbus[22477]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
dbus[22477]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out

polkit

systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Вт 2018-05-15 11:28:56 +09; 4min 15s ago
     Docs: man:polkit(8)
  Process: 22635 ExecStart=/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 22635 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
polkitd[22635]: Started polkitd version 0.112
polkitd[22635]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
polkitd[22635]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
polkitd[22635]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules
polkitd[22635]: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 - exiting
systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.

Answer 1

It turned out that /var/run was not a symbolic link to /run. Manually removed /var/run and created a link to /run in /var. Rebooted and everything went up!

Answer 2

1. Check what you have with the user polkitd

getent group polkitd >/dev/null && echo -e "\e[1;32mpolkitd group already exists\e[0m" || { groupadd -r polkitd && echo -e "\e[1;33mAdded missing polkitd group\e[0m" || echo -e "\e[1;31mAdding polkitd group FAILED\e[0m"; }
getent passwd polkitd >/dev/null && echo -e "\e[1;32mpolkitd user already exists\e[0m" || { useradd -r -g polkitd -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "User for polkitd" polkitd && echo -e "\e[1;33mAdded missing polkitd user\e[0m" || echo -e "\e[1;31mAdding polkitd user FAILED\e[0m"; }

Correct your rights:
Reboot.
2. Are you using SE?
Check if you have a setroubleshoot user in /etc/passwd
If not, remove the corresponding group from /etc/group and reinstall setroubleshoot.
And restart it.
3. apt install --reinstall systemd