[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#791360: Bug#791360: policykit-1: After upgrading to this version, udiskd keeps asking for passwd to get smart data

[Eric Valette]

On 03/07/2015 22:23, Eric Valette wrote:
> On 03/07/2015 22:21, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 03.07.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Eric Valette:
>>> Package: policykit-1
>>> Version: 0.113-1
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> The popup contains a mesage Authentication required to update SMART
>>> data from...
>>> the polkit.caller-pid ponts to udiskd.
>>>
>>> The root passwd is rejeted and the current user passwd is prompted
>>> again and again
>>>   (every 5 s)
>>
>> Is this problem reproducible, by simply restarting polkitd:
>> systemctl restart polkitd.service
>
> At least it persist to reboot. I already rebooted once to catch this tpe
> of error. Downgraded to 0.112-5 and problem is gone.

I did a /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd --replace to get trace before downgrading

and the popup occurs at:

22:05:04.381:[4687]:[INFO]: Refreshing SMART data on 
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Samsung_SSD_840_Series_S14CNEAD235034Z 
(nowakeup=1) [udiskslinuxdriveobject.c:925, 
udisks_linux_drive_object_housekeeping()] 

22:05:04.460:[4687]:[DEBUG]: drive_read=50593, drive_write=3721, 
old_drive_read=44918, old_drive_write=3051
  [udiskslinuxdriveata.c:487, update_io_stats()]
22:05:04.460:[4687]:[INFO]: Refreshing SMART data on 
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST1000DM003_1CH162_Z1D3KAPD (nowakeup=1) 
[udiskslinuxdriveobject.c:925, udisks_linux_drive_object_housekeeping()]

After downgrading, while manually launched udisksd was still running, I 
have the message but no popup.

--eric