[Stable Update] 2026-01-04 - Manjaro 26.0, Mesa, Firefox, LibreOffice, COSMIC

In the latter stages of updating (pacman -Syu) I noticed a warning of incorrect permissions under the /usr/lib/polkit-1 heirarchy.

Related: pamac update --aur also failed to initialise.

On the chance that this wasn’t a local issue, assigning the correct permissions to directories/files should fix the issue:


The correct permissions should be:

  • drwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Directory
  • -rwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Executables
  • -rw-r--r-- (644) - root:root - Rules files

Fix polkit-1 directory and file permissions:

sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/*

We now return you to your usual programming.

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