Description of problem: Click on MCC icon has no effect. After checking what polkit is running, I see that polkit agent isn't running. This is not the case at each boot. Yesterday, it was OK, but not the boot before and today. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qa|grep polkit lib64polkit-qt-gui-1_1-0.112.0-6.mga5 polkit-0.113-1.mga5 lib64polkit-qt-agent-1_1-0.112.0-6.mga5 lib64polkit-qt-core-1_1-0.112.0-6.mga5 lib64polkit-gir1.0-0.113-1.mga5 polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.1-2.mga5 polkit-kde-kcmodules-1-0.98.1-6.mga5 lib64polkit1_0-0.113-1.mga5 Using KDE Mageia 5 installed by upgrading. # /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 unnamed app(6811): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." unnamed app(6810): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. Some others users reported the same problem: http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-20750+mot-de-passe-root-non-reconnu-avec-interface-graphique.php http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-20717+mcc-et-type-de-clavier-non-fonctionnel.php http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-20681+ccm-et-option-installation-logiciel-du-menu-ne-fonctionnent-plus.php Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
CC: (none) => mageiaAssignee: bugsquad => lmenut
(In reply to papoteur from comment #0) > Description of problem: > Click on MCC icon has no effect. > After checking what polkit is running, I see that polkit agent isn't running. > This is not the case at each boot. Yesterday, it was OK, but not the boot > before and today. > ... > > # /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 > unnamed app(6811): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: > "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application > did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the > reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." > > unnamed app(6810): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. > I can reproduce bug 16396, but not this one. Are you sure polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 was not running ? The error message could indicate that it's running, but has some issue. Considering that we have several reports of issues with authentication since the update to polkit 0.113 in various DE, we probably have a more general issue somewhere in the polkit stack. Not sure polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 is the culprit. When authentication fails, could you give the output of cat /run/systemd/users/$(id -u)
Please at least provide the output of all 3 of the following commands, you seem to have an issue with dbus, that's why the agent doesn't run. cat /run/systemd/users/$(id -u) ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|dbus" systemctl status polkit.service -a Your issue seems completely different. And currently we only have 2 actual bigger polkit issues. Bug 16319 which basically is a packaging bug or a systemd flaw in that it doesn't restart polkit after an update. And bug 16396 which is related to a recent polkit/systemd change, and basically we were missing a patch. Thanks to Luc for finding that one :)
CC: (none) => doktor5000
Hello Florian, I do not have the problem yet. But I give you the results of the commands you cite: # ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|dbus" message+ 991 1 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:12 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation polkitd 1120 1 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug yves 1822 1 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax yves 1837 1 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:04 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session yves 3303 1 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 yves 3436 3427 0 oct.01 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 [root@Netbook-M4 /]# systemctl status polkit.service -a â polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static) Active: active (running) since jeu. 2015-10-01 08:41:06 CEST; 3 days ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 1120 (polkitd) CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service ââ1120 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug oct. 01 08:41:05 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Started polkitd version 0.113 oct. 01 08:41:06 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d oct. 01 08:41:06 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d oct. 01 08:41:06 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules oct. 01 08:41:06 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus oct. 01 08:42:01 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.55 [/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale fr_FR.UTF-8) oct. 02 09:28:51 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Operator of unix-session:c1 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.mageia.drakconf.pkexec.run for unix-process:633:8929826 [/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/drakconf] (owned by unix-user:yves) oct. 04 17:06:40 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1120]: Operator of unix-session:c1 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.mageia.isodumper.pkexec.run for unix-process:24933:28956809 [/bin/sh /usr/bin/isodumper] (owned by unix-user:yves) I remember to have a try to downgrade the version of polkit to 0.112, but it is yet 0.113.
Well, I don't see the problem you initially reported. /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 is running, and you have already used it successfully to run MCC and isodumper.
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
(In reply to papoteur from comment #0) > # /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 > unnamed app(6811): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: > "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application > did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the > reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." > > unnamed app(6810): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. Judging by the # and the error message, I believe you tried to run the authentication agent as root, and I guess it's not meant to be. You get the same kind of "missing D-Bus session server" if you try e.g. to run dolphin as root ("su", might work with "su -").
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #5) > (In reply to papoteur from comment #0) > > # /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 > > unnamed app(6811): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: > > "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application > > did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the > > reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." > > > > unnamed app(6810): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. > > Judging by the # and the error message, I believe you tried to run the > authentication agent as root, and I guess it's not meant to be. You get the > same kind of "missing D-Bus session server" if you try e.g. to run dolphin > as root ("su", might work with "su -"). I think you're right. Thus, we can close.
Closing as INVALID then, though you did experience a polkit-related issue in comment 0 so it's maybe more a duplicate of another current polkit bug. Don't know which one though, hence the INVALID.
Resolution: (none) => INVALIDStatus: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED
I encounter again the problem. cat /run/systemd/users/$(id -u) # This is private data. Do not parse. NAME=yves STATE=active RUNTIME=/run/user/500 SERVICE=user@500.service SLICE=user-500.slice DISPLAY=c1 REALTIME=1444630237970491 MONOTONIC=43901608 SESSIONS=c1 SEATS=seat0 ACTIVE_SESSIONS=c1 ONLINE_SESSIONS=c1 ACTIVE_SEATS=seat0 ONLINE_SEATS=seat0 [yves@Netbook-M4 ~]$ mcc ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mageia.drakconf.pkexec.run === Authentication is required to run Mageia Control Center GUI Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|dbus" message+ 985 1 0 oct.12 ? 00:00:07 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation polkitd 1068 1 0 oct.12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug yves 1808 1 0 oct.12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax yves 1812 1 0 oct.12 ? 00:00:03 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session yves 3082 3077 0 oct.12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 [yves@Netbook-M4 ~]$ systemctl status polkit.service -a â polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static) Active: active (running) since lun. 2015-10-12 08:10:34 CEST; 3 days ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 1068 (polkitd) CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service ââ1068 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug [yves@Netbook-M4 ~]$ /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 New PolkitAgentListener 0x175bc20 Adding new listener PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x18c8ce0) for 0x175bc20 My system is not uptodate, in particular, I haven't latest polkit and systemd updates.
Ever confirmed: 0 => 1Status: RESOLVED => REOPENEDResolution: INVALID => (none)
(In reply to papoteur from comment #8) > My system is not uptodate, in particular, I haven't latest polkit and > systemd updates. Please install those and then reboot please. Apart from this, this time /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 seemed to start just fine, no errors.
After installing the updates and a reboot, the MCC starts form the launcher. I wait for next reboots. Papoteur
Hello, System uptodate. Again the problem at this reboot. ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "polkit|dbus" message+ 1461 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation polkitd 1561 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug yves 2175 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax yves 2211 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session yves 5768 5757 0 11:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 $ cat /run/systemd/users/$(id -u) # This is private data. Do not parse. NAME=yves STATE=active RUNTIME=/run/user/500 SERVICE=user@500.service SLICE=user-500.slice DISPLAY=c1 REALTIME=1445333250040427 MONOTONIC=243046726 SESSIONS=c1 SEATS=seat0 ACTIVE_SESSIONS=c1 ONLINE_SESSIONS=c1 ACTIVE_SEATS=seat0 ONLINE_SEATS=seat0 $ mcc ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mageia.drakconf.pkexec.run === Authentication is required to run Mageia Control Center GUI Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. $ /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 New PolkitAgentListener 0x1a9fc20 Adding new listener PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x1bccaa0) for 0x1a9fc20
Summary: polkit-kde-agent doesn't start => polkit-kde-agent doesn't start at boot
And: # journalctl -ab | grep -iE "polkit|policykit" oct. 20 11:27:25 Netbook-M4 dbus[1461]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service' oct. 20 11:27:26 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Started polkitd version 0.113 oct. 20 11:27:27 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d oct. 20 11:27:27 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d oct. 20 11:27:27 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 3 rules oct. 20 11:27:27 Netbook-M4 dbus[1461]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' oct. 20 11:27:27 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus oct. 20 17:39:20 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:10664:2255362 (system bus name :1.71 [/usr/bin/pkexec /usr/libexec/drakconf], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) oct. 20 17:39:30 Netbook-M4 polkit-agent-helper-1[10670]: pam_tcb(polkit-1:auth): Authentication passed for root from (uid=500) oct. 20 17:39:30 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Operator of unix-process:10664:2255362 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.mageia.drakconf.pkexec.run for unix-process:10664:2255362 [/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/mcc] (owned by unix-user:yves) oct. 20 17:39:30 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:10664:2255362 (system bus name :1.71, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) oct. 20 17:40:41 Netbook-M4 polkitd[1561]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.73 [/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale fr_FR.UTF-8) [root@Netbook-M4 yves]# journalctl -ab /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 -- Logs begin at sam. 2015-01-31 13:43:59 CET, end at mar. 2015-10-20 17:45:36 CEST. --
An d in .xsession-errors Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address
Seems pretty similar to bug 16961 as it only affects polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 and only happens intermittently. To be honest, I've no clue how to debug this further without access to the system. I'd simply uninstall it via rpm -e --nodeps polkit-kde-agent-1 and then install any other polkit agent via urpmi polkit-agent The following packages provide a polkit agent: [~] urpmq --whatprovides polkit-agent lxqt-policykit|lxqt-policykit|polkit-agent-none|polkit-kde-agent-1|mate-polkit|lxqt-policykit|cinnamon|gnome-shell|gnome-shell
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16961
Hello, I just checked the content of /etc/xdg/autostart/ and ~/.kde4/autostart/ There is no polkit agent. Is that relevant ? The .spec file of polkit-kde-agent-1 include a line: %{_kde_autostart}/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop Thus, where is this file now?
(In reply to papoteur from comment #15) > Hello, > I just checked the content of /etc/xdg/autostart/ and ~/.kde4/autostart/ > There is no polkit agent. > Is that relevant ? > The .spec file of polkit-kde-agent-1 include a line: > %{_kde_autostart}/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop > > Thus, where is this file now? /usr/share/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #16) > > Thus, where is this file now? > > /usr/share/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop Ok found it. The problem is why it doesn't start. Where to look for ? Some logs? Activate debug or log option?
(In reply to papoteur from comment #15) > The .spec file of polkit-kde-agent-1 include a line: > %{_kde_autostart}/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop > > Thus, where is this file now? FWIW, you can expand rpm macros via rpm --eval or rpm -E, so rpm -E "%{_kde_autostart}/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop" would have shown you ;) And for debugging, that is why I've asked Luc in bug 16961 about this. You should run kdebugdialog and enable all debug messages there, but I'm not sure that helps for this issue. You could try to put a shell script in the Exec=line of /usr/share/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop and the shell script could do something like the following: #!/bin/bash echo >> ~/.xsession-errors echo "====polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 starting at $(date)====" >> ~/.xsession-errors /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 2>&1 | tee -a ~/.xsession-errors echo "====polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 should be running at $(date)====" >> ~/.xsession-errors echo >> ~/.xsession-errors Don't forget to make it executable. And then check your ~/.xsession-errors for the string "====polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 starting at" until "====polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 should be running at" and post it here. If that doesn't work, we might have to add a debug build, like explained in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258916
Summary: polkit-kde-agent doesn't start at boot => polkit-kde-agent doesn't start at login
Hello Florian, Thus I have written the script and modified the .desktop file. When the agent doesn't start, I have no trace in .xsessions-errors. When it starts, there is a trace, but not from the script of .desktop Thus, what I think is that the .desktop is not executed, but polkit can be launched from another way.
Well, then rename /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 to something different and put the script in place for it, and have it call the new name for /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 And please also post the trace you mentioned.
I done a "dracut -f" and since, I have no more problem of polkit agent not starting. Thus I close the bug.
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED