Bug#1143635: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1143635: polkitd: Forky - root auth for progs like gparted synaptic etc. only works once after a reboot
Am 05.08.26 um 13:10 schrieb Michael Biebl:
What I do notice is, that mate-polkit pulls in the accountsservice
package, which is not a dependency of cinnamon.
Could you try the following: uninstall mate-polkit(-common) again, but
keep accountsservice installed.
Does that fix the issue?
If so, cinnamon probably has an undeclared dependency on accountsservice
and it should either add a dependency on it or handle its absence.
I pulled the sources for src:cinnamon and noticed the following:
$ grep AccountsService -R
src/main.c: g_log_set_handler ("AccountsService", G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG,
js/ui/polkitAuthenticationAgent.js:const AccountsService =
imports.gi.AccountsService;
js/ui/polkitAuthenticationAgent.js:this._accountsService =
AccountsService.UserManager.get_default();
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py:gi.require_version('AccountsService',
'1.0')
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py:from
gi.repository import AccountsService, GLib, GdkPixbuf, XApp
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py:
self.accountService =
AccountsService.UserManager.get_default().get_user(current_user)
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:gi.require_version("AccountsService",
"1.0")
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:from
gi.repository import Gtk, GObject, Gio, GdkPixbuf, AccountsService, GLib
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
users = AccountsService.UserManager.get_default().list_users()
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
self.accountService = AccountsService.UserManager.get_default()
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
user.set_account_type(AccountsService.UserAccountType.ADMINISTRATOR)
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
user.set_account_type(AccountsService.UserAccountType.STANDARD)
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
if user.get_password_mode() == AccountsService.UserPasswordMode.REGULAR:
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
elif user.get_password_mode() == AccountsService.UserPasswordMode.NONE:
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
if user.get_account_type() ==
AccountsService.UserAccountType.ADMINISTRATOR:
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
account_type = AccountsService.UserAccountType.ADMINISTRATOR
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
account_type = AccountsService.UserAccountType.STANDARD
files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings-users/cinnamon-settings-users.py:
new_user.set_password_mode(AccountsService.UserPasswordMode.NONE)
files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/[email protected]/applet.js:const
AccountsService = imports.gi.AccountsService;
files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/[email protected]/applet.js:this._user
= AccountsService.UserManager.get_default().get_user(GLib.get_user_name());
files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/[email protected]/applet.js:const
AccountsService = imports.gi.AccountsService;
files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/[email protected]/applet.js:let user =
AccountsService.UserManager.get_default().get_user(GLib.get_user_name(
js/ui/polkitAuthenticationAgent.js:this._accountsService =
AccountsService.UserManager.get_default();
This quick check confirms that the cinnamon authentication agent
interacts with the AccountService daemon and it probably doesn't handle
the case properly when it's not installed/running.
Regards,
Michael
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Bug#1143635: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1143635: polkitd: Forky - root auth for progs like gparted synaptic etc. only works once after a reboot
Control: reassign -1 cinnamon Hi Rolf Am 05.08.26 um 10:53 schrieb Rolf Heinrichs: Package: polkitd Version: 127-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installation of forky from daily build 05.08.26, German localisation/keyboard, X11/Lightdm/Cinnamon DE in VBox The root auth works once after reboot, the second call brings no popup auth window, ends in processes running in the background: From ps -ax trying to start synaptic: 2638 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec 2641 ?Sl 0:00 pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic Installed polkit related packages: apt list -i *polkit* gir1.2-polkit-1.0/testing,now 127-3 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch] libpolkit-agent-1-0/testing,now 127-3 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch] libpolkit-gobject-1-0/testing,now 127-3 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch] polkitd/testing,now 127-3 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch] Thank you for looking at the issue. Rolf Your desktop environment is supposed to provide a so called authentication agent. It prompts the user for authentication information. Some desktop environments, like GNOME and Cinnamon, have that functionality built into their desktop shell directly, some desktop environments, like MATE use a dedicated binary for that. Since you are running cinnamon, which has a builtin authentication agent, I'm going to re-assign this bug report to this package. Apparently it gets confused after the first authentication prompt. Installing mate-polkit should not be necessary. What I do notice is, that mate-polkit pulls in the accountsservice package, which is not a dependency of cinnamon. Could you try the following: uninstall mate-polkit(-common) again, but keep accountsservice installed. Does that fix the issue? If so, cinnamon probably has an undeclared dependency on accountsservice and it should either add a dependency on it or handle its absence. Regards, Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
