What causes the rtkit-daemon warning message(PolicyKit call failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set) to occur periodically?
Issue
- The rtkit-daemon log occurs periodically in the file "/var/log/messages" as shown below.
Jan 15 20:39:00 XXXXXXX rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set
Jan 15 20:40:09 XXXXXXX rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set
Jan 16 08:39:00 XXXXXXX rtkit-daemon[XXXX]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set
- Ask if it is okay to ignore this log message.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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