systemd: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files, or you just forgot sudo

This is yet another good example of why I hate systemd. It has good intentions and there are things it can do really well, but for the most part, it is an extremely frustrating piece of software to use. And for no good reason, really.

Say you just issued the below command (like I was doing):

systemctl start ceph-osd@205

and were met with the following rebuttal:

The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files

You’re probably really scratching your head at this point…

The problem actually has nothing to do with anything the above error states. I simply forgot to use sudo

sudo systemctl start ceph-osd@205

and now everything is right with the world.

See what I mean? Simply frustrating that one would be led so far off the correct path right from the start.