Bug#740910: gnome: All password prompts are blocking on submission

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reassign -1 gnome 3.8.4

On Mi, 05 mar 14, 22:30:29, Adrien wrote:
> Source: gnome
> Version: 3.8.4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading my SID by doing an aptitude safe-upgrade, all the gnome
> components that are password-based ceased to work, including gdm3's password
> field, evolutions's and seahorse's.
> 
> In practice: at log-in time, I select my user account and am asked to enter my
> password. I enter the password, then click "log in". That log-in button turns
> greyer, and nothing else happens. I can still click in the top menu bar to see
> how much battery is left, or I can click "cancel", in which case I'm back at the
> user selection part of the login page.
> 
> Now, if I log in manually (kill gdm, startx) and lauch evolution, it will say I
> didn't unlock the keyring, and prompts for my password. Again, clicking "unlock"
> leaves me with the only choice to click cancel.
> 
> The same problem happens if I ask seahorse to unlock my keyring.
> 
> Besides that, I can use xdm, sudo, and other non-gnome password-prompting tools
> without problem.
> 
> I have tried reinstalling gnome-{shell,session,core,keyring} without any luck. I
> also tried commenting gnome-keyring related entries in /etc/pam.d/* without luck
> either.
> 
> I do not know how to investigate better the issue and figure out where the
> problem lies (maybe the password prompt tries to connect to a daemon that's not
> running, and blocks on it? Maybe it tries to read a file it doesn't have rights
> to access?).
> 
> I filed a bug report for gnome as well
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725707 but they suggested I report to
> Debian instead, and so far haven't helped me investigate better the issue.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> P!
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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