On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 14:05 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 19:07 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 at 09:47:43 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is caused by gnome-terminal's design of spawning all child > > > processes via gnome-terminal-server which is spawned from the > > > user's dbus session. > > > > > > For a 'fun' reproduction, launch nm-connection-editor from gnome- > > > terminal and try to figure out why it doesn't work. :) > > This has been a problem in the past, but your reproducer works fine for me > > (under GNOME Shell, which among its other functions acts as the polkit > > agent). We fixed several issues related to this in polkit and udisks2 > > shortly after I introduced dbus-user-session.
> Ok, now I'm lost. At first I assumed that this worked for you because
> you had policykit-1 from experimental installed, including the fix for
> #779988; however I just noticed that this patch was backported to the
> version in testing, and so should already be working on my system.
Scratch that, I just figured it out. Although I had policykit-1 from
testing installed, libpolkit-backend-1-0 from stable was still
installed. After upgrading that too, and restarting polkitd.service,
the new code with the fix is used and everything works fine!
Perhaps polkit-1 could be made to depend on the exact ${binary:Version}
of libpolkit-backend-1-0 to prevent this kind of version skew from
happening again.
Anyway, many thanks for your help!
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Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/>
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