[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#814190: Bug#814190: Ping

[u]

Salut Antoine,

Antoine Beaupré:
> Control: found 814190 5.0.6+dfsg-1~bpo9+1
> It *looks* like it mostly finished correctly, but failed to
> unmount. Here's the output in the text area:

It basically failed exactly at the two moments (writing the MBR and
unmounting the device) where polkit it called :)

> ['/sbin/sgdisk', '--print', '/dev/sdc']
> Problem opening /dev/sdc for reading! Error is 13.
> You must run this program as root or use sudo!
> 
> ['/sbin/sgdisk', '--zap-all', '/dev/sdc']
> Problem opening /dev/sdc for reading! Error is 13.
> You must run this program as root or use sudo!
> Problem opening '' for writing! Program will now terminate.
> Warning! MBR not overwritten! Error is 2!

> /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/syslinux  -d syslinux /dev/sdc1
> polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
> Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
> 
> This incident has been reported.
> 
> Un problème est survenu lors de l'exécution de la commande suivante : `/usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/syslinux  -d syslinux /dev/sdc1`
> Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/syslinux' as the super user
> Authenticating as: Antoine Beaupre,,, (anarcat)
> Password: 
> ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
> Exception in thread Thread-2:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
>     self.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/gui.py", line 264, in run
>     self.live.log.exception(unicode(e))
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> 
> I did enter my password at the prompt, but it failed to do the right
> thing.

What does `pkexec whoami` tell you?

Cheers!
u.