Clightd not working

[danjenson]

System

• xuname:

Void 5.15.9_1 x86_64 GenuineIntel uptodate rFFFF

• package:

Clight-4.7_1

Expected behavior

Clight daemon would respond to clight, without sudo.

Actual behavior

The daemon/service does not seem to respond to clight. Even running, dbus-run-session clight with the Clightd service running returns an Idle Error. It will only work with sudo dbus-run-session clight, which seems to circumvent using Clightd. (The point of Clightd is so clight can be run without sudo privileges). I have added my user to i2c, dbus, and dbus is running (so is polkitd). I also start bspwm with exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 bspwm. The author of clight is unfamiliar with void/bspwm, so is having a hard time debugging (FedeDP/Clight#240).

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Install Clightd
2. Enable dbus, polkitd, and Clightd
3. Start a bspwm session with exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 (in ~/.xinitrc)
4. Start clight with dbus-run-session clight
5. Check the log at ~/.local/share/clight/clight.log. It will have the following lines:

(I)[10:02:12]{main.c:127}	Clightd found, version: 5.4.
(I)[10:02:12]{keyboard.c:158}	Keyboard backlight calibration supported.
(I)[10:02:12]{interface.c:180}	org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver dbus interface exposed.
(I)[10:02:12]{upower.c:54}	AC cable disconnected.
(I)[10:02:12]{upower.c:65}	Laptop lid opened.
(W)[10:02:12]{idler.c:22}	Clightd idle error.
(W)[10:02:12]{dimmer.c:55}	Failed to init. Killing module.
(W)[10:02:12]{idler.c:22}	Clightd idle error.
(W)[10:02:12]{dpms.c:48}	Failed to init. Killing module.
(W)[10:02:42]{location.c:89}	Timed out waiting on location provided by Geoclue2. Killing module.
(W)[10:02:42]{daytime.c:68}	No location provider found; fallback to DAY daytime.
(W)[10:02:42]{gamma.c:91}	Killing GAMMA as no location provider is available.

[danjenson]

So, it turns out that this requires an active polkitd session, as well as this rule in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-clightd.rules:

/* Allow any user to call clightd without authentication */
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (action.id.indexOf("org.clightd.clightd.") == 0) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

Not sure if this should be somehow incorporated into the install script. Welcome to add it, would just need some guidance, as I've only been running Void for < 1 week.

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