Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322662
Title:
Troubles on authenticating with pkexec
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 dev with policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu2 and on
trying to change from gksu to pexec I'm ecountering some errors:
1. pkexec isn't showing a graphical frontend and asks directly in the
terminal for the password.
2. After successfully authenticating pkexec closes mostly without giving an
error message. Here is an example output:
sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ pkexec pcmanfm
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/pcmanfm' as the super user
Authenticating as: ,,, (sworddragon)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Hangup
But sometimes I'm getting also an error message:
sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ pkexec pcmanfm
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/pcmanfm' as the super user
Authenticating as: ,,, (sworddragon)
Password:
(process:1795): GLib-WARNING **: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child
process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). Most likely the
process is ignoring SIGCHLD, or some other thread is invoking waitpid() with a
nonpositive first argument; either behavior can break applications that use
g_child_watch_add()/g_spawn_sync() either directly or indirectly.
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Hangup
Both times calling "echo $?" afterwards shows 129.
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