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: [email protected]

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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