rtkit-daemon prints warning messages related to PolicyKit or dbus_message_get_unix_user() failing

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The rtkit-daemon process regularly prints warning in the journal

    [...] rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set
[...] rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Failed to open file “/proc/XXXX/status”: No such file or directory

    or

    [...] rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: dbus_message_get_unix_user() failed: Could not get UID of name ':1.XXX': no such name

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later
    • rtkit

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