Bug#728442: gnome-control-center crashes gnome-shell trying to raise privileges

Philip Armstrong phil at kantaka.co.uk
Fri Nov 1 11:12:45 UTC 2013


Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.8.3-3
Severity: normal

Pressing the "Unlock" button on the gnome-control-center user manager
page causes the entire desktop to freeze for about 5s after which
gnome-shell appears to crash & restart the following error is reported
by g-c-c:

$ gnome-control-center
(gnome-control-center:30973): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring
permission: Failed to acquire permission for action-id org.gnome.controlcenter.user-accounts.administration

Obviously this might be a bug in another part of gnome, but I've no
idea where to start looking. The password entering infrastructure for
things like gpg works fine if that's relevant at all.

I see the following output in /var/log/auth.log at the same time:

Nov  1 11:05:16 xanthus polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.154, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8) (disconnected from bus)
Nov  1 11:05:16 xanthus polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.gnome.controlcenter.user-accounts.administration for unix-process:863:611165 [gnome-control-center --overview] (owned by unix-user:phil)
Nov  1 11:05:17 xanthus dbus[1309]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.159" (uid=1000 pid=1840 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.3" (uid=0 pid=1305 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Nov  1 11:05:17 xanthus polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.159 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.utf8)

Whilst /var/log/messages contains:

Nov  1 11:04:56 xanthus dbus-daemon[1309]: dbus[1309]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.158" (uid=1000 pid=863 comm="gnome-control-center --overview ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.3" (uid=0 pid=1305 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Nov  1 11:05:01 xanthus /USR/SBIN/CRON[893]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Nov  1 11:05:16 xanthus kernel: [ 6163.301295] gnome-shell[31903]: segfault at 7fffe4c6dff8 ip 00007fb5b625d372 sp 00007fffe4c6e000 error 6 in libgjs.so.0.0.0[7fb5b6241000+4f000]
Nov  1 11:05:16 xanthus gnome-session[29777]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Nov  1 11:05:17 xanthus dbus-daemon[1309]: dbus[1309]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.159" (uid=1000 pid=1840 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.3" (uid=0 pid=1305 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Nov  1 11:05:19 xanthus nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 3.2.2 initializing...
Nov  1 11:05:19 xanthus nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 3.2.2 initializing...

/var/log/kern.log says:

Nov  1 10:52:46 xanthus kernel: [ 5412.375247] gnome-shell[31902]: segfault at 7fffbcfa3ff8 ip 00007f018ab7aa20 sp 00007fffbcfa4000 error 6 in ld-2.17.so[7f018ab6b000+21000]
Nov  1 11:05:16 xanthus kernel: [ 6163.301295] gnome-shell[31903]: segfault at 7fffe4c6dff8 ip 00007fb5b625d372 sp 00007fffe4c6e000 error 6 in libgjs.so.0.0.0[7fb5b6241000+4f000]


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice            0.6.34-2
ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-2
ii  colord                     1.0.2-1
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.8.3-3
ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.8.3-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.8.2.2-2
ii  gnome-menus                3.8.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.8.5-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.8.2-2
ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.34-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-93
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-2
ii  libcheese-gtk23            3.8.3-1
ii  libcheese7                 3.8.3-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.4.4-3
ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.25-1
ii  libcolord1                 1.0.2-1
ii  libcups2                   1.6.3-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.100.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   9.1.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libgnome-bluetooth11       3.8.1-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgoa-1.0-0               3.8.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.4-1
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.28.5-2
ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.3-7
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.11.3+dfsg-3
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-glib4                0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-gtk0                 0.9.8.4-1
ii  libnm-util2                0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.110-2
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    4.0-6+b1
ii  libpulse0                  4.0-6+b1
ii  libpwquality1              1.2.3-1
ii  libsmbclient               2:4.0.10+dfsg-3
ii  libsocialweb-client2       0.25.20-6
ii  libupower-glib1            0.9.23-2
ii  libwacom2                  0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.9.8.4-1

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cups-pk-helper         0.2.5-1
ii  gkbd-capplet           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-online-accounts  3.8.3-2
ii  gnome-user-guide       3.8.2-1
ii  gnome-user-share       3.8.3-1
ii  iso-codes              3.47-1
ii  mesa-utils             8.1.0-2
ii  mousetweaks            3.8.0-1
ii  ntp                    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.105-2
ii  rygel                  0.20.1-1
ii  rygel-tracker          0.20.1-1
ii  system-config-printer  1.4.1-4

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver        3.6.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.2.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk-module   0.30-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+1

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