[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1028201: riseup-vpn unable to find a usable polkit agent under phosh

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sat, Jan 21 2023 at 11:54:37 AM +05:30:00 +05:30:00, Nilesh Patra 
<nilesh at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Praveen,
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:20:03 +0100 Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras 
> <devrtz-debian at fortysixandtwo.eu> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2023-01-08 at 18:54 +0530, Pirate Praveen via 
>> Debian-on-mobile-
>> maintainers wrote:
>>> Package: riseup-vpn,phosh
>>> severity: grave
>>> 
>>> On mobian under phosh (librem 5), riseup-vpn gives error.
>>> output of riseup-vpn attached.
>>> 
>>> phosh provides polkit-1-auth-agent
>>> 
>>> phosh 0.23
>>> riseup-vpn 0.21.11+ds1-2+b1
>> 
>> I've tried to reproduce this by running $ pkexec echo bla
>> 
>> On both my Pinephone running Mobian, as well as on my Librem 5 
>> running PureOS
>> the polkit authentication dialog is presented.
>> 
>> If you send a SIGUSR1 to phosh you can enable debug logging.
>> You should find something like the following in your journal:
>> 
>> Jan 17 18:10:04 hades phosh[1264]: New prompt for Authentication is 
>> needed to
>> run `/usr/bin/echo' as the super user
>> Jan 17 18:10:04 hades phosh[1264]: Adding 
>> PHOSH_STATE_MODAL_SYSTEM_PROMPT to
>> shells state. New state: PHOSH_STATE_MODAL_SYSTEM_PROMPT
>> 
>> While I've not tried it with riseup this test should already 
>> indicate whether
>> polkit authentication itself is working in phosh itself.
> 
> I maintain riseup-vpn in debian. As you might see in the dependency 
> list, it depends on
> policykit as "policykit-1-gnome | polkit-1-auth-agent"
> 
> If this is not functional for you, there is nothing I can do from 
> riseup-vpn side to make
> it work. As it works for Evangelos, please kindly check if this works 
> as well for you and ensure
> that this is not a local issue.

After installing policykit-1-gnome, riseup-vpn is working. So probably 
polkit-1-auth-agent provided by phosh is not sufficient for riseup-vpn, 
in that case either the missing features should be added to it or 
riseup-vpn should have an explicit dependency on policykit-1-gnome 
(instead of the optional dependency).

> 
> Thank you
> Nilesh
> 
>