This is related to another earlier post regarding “realm discover”

I want to set the timezone to Melbourne/Australia which failed with:

[root@sssd-testing ~]# timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Melbourne Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached
(g-io-error-quark, 24)
Failed to set time zone: Connection timed out

I found the following which suggests the error is caused by the polkit service failing to start:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249575/systemctl-keeps-timing-out-on-service-restart

When I reinstall and try to start the polkit service in accordance with the post above I receive the following:

[root@sssd-testing ~]# systemctl start polkit Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached
(g-io-error-quark, 24)
Failed to start polkit.service: Connection timed out

When I call the service directly in accordance with the post above I
receive:

[root@sssd-testing ~]# /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd Successfully changed to user polkitd Error getting system bus: Could not connect: Permission denied
** (polkitd:922): WARNING **: Error getting system bus: Could not connect:
Permission denied
10:44:10.564: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
10:44:10.564: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
10:44:10.564: Finished loading, compiling and executing 2 rules Entering main event loop
10:44:10.564: Lost the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 – exiting Shutting down Exiting with code 0

The post below identifies a similar issue with the polkit service not starting however I have confirmed dbus is running and the polkitd user does exist. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id1291

[root@sssd-testing ~]# ps ax | grep dbus
221 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon –system –address=systemd:
–nofork –nopidfile –systemd-activation
929 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep –color=auto dbus

[root@sssd-testing ~]# getent passwd polkitd polkitd:x:997:995:User for polkitd:/:/sbin/nologin