[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1143635: Bug#1143635: polkitd: Forky - root auth for progs like gparted synaptic etc. only works once after a reboot

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 cinnamon


Hi Rolf

Am 05.08.26 um 10:53 schrieb Rolf Heinrichs:
> Package: polkitd
> Version: 127-3
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: rolf.o1.heinrichs at gmx.net
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>     * What led up to the situation?
> Installation of forky from daily build 05.08.26, German localisation/keyboard, X11/Lightdm/Cinnamon DE in VBox
> 
> The root auth works once after reboot, the second call brings no popup auth window, ends in processes running in the background:
>>From ps -ax trying to start synaptic:
> 2638 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec
> 2641 ?        Sl     0:00 pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic
> 
> Installed polkit related packages:
> apt list -i *polkit*
> gir1.2-polkit-1.0/testing,now 127-3 amd64  [Installiert,automatisch]
> libpolkit-agent-1-0/testing,now 127-3 amd64  [Installiert,automatisch]
> libpolkit-gobject-1-0/testing,now 127-3 amd64  [Installiert,automatisch]
> polkitd/testing,now 127-3 amd64  [Installiert,automatisch]
> 
> Thank you for looking at the issue.
> 
> Rolf
> 

Your desktop environment is supposed to provide a so called 
authentication agent. It prompts the user for authentication information.
Some desktop environments, like GNOME and Cinnamon, have that 
functionality built into their desktop shell directly, some desktop 
environments, like MATE use a dedicated binary for that.

Since you are running cinnamon, which has a builtin authentication 
agent, I'm going to re-assign this bug report to this package.
Apparently it gets confused after the first authentication prompt.
Installing mate-polkit should not be necessary.

What I do notice is, that mate-polkit pulls in the accountsservice 
package, which is not a dependency of cinnamon.
Could you try the following: uninstall mate-polkit(-common) again, but 
keep accountsservice installed.
Does that fix the issue?
If so, cinnamon probably has an undeclared dependency on accountsservice 
and it should either add a dependency on it or handle its absence.

Regards,
Michael


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