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

[Nilesh Patra]

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.

Thank you
Nilesh