Bug 103611

Summary:	Graphical root password prompt displays "unknown exit code" error if cancelled
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Barry K. Nathan <barryn>
Component:	usermode	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Fixed In Version:	1.68-5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Barry K. Nathan 2003-09-02 23:03:37 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030819

Description of problem:
If the user clicks "Cancel" when asked for the root password by the RHN applet,
the applet responds with "Unknown exit code".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-applet-2.0.10-2
up2date-3.9.22-2
(WS beta 2, Everything install, system fully up2date except for the
anaconda-product package, as of 20030902)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the white-exclamation-point-in-red-circle icon.
2. Click "Launch up2date..."
3. A dialog box appears asking for the root password.
4. Click Cancel. (Maybe the user does not know the root password for some reason.)

Actual Results:  
"Unknown exit code" error dialog appears.

Expected Results:  
I'm not 100% what I'm expecting. I suppose I'm expecting silence (the user
cancelled the operation after all). I'm certainly not expecting an "unknown"
error of any sort.

Additional info:
I'm not 100% sure that this is rhn-applet's fault and not, say, a problem in PAM
or something, but rhn-applet is my best guess.

Comment 1 Daniel Veillard 2003-09-03 09:15:08 UTC

Hum this pop-up is actually done by up2date. I could reproduce the steps
and get the "unknown exit code" pop-up, but that pop-up is raised by up2date.
For example killing the background up2date kills the pop-up.
Maybe the interface of the Gnome root password reading program changed,

Daniel

Comment 2 Barry K. Nathan 2003-09-05 01:52:29 UTC

Actually, we were both wrong. :) I'm not 100% absolutely sure that usermode is
the guilty party, but I'm 100% sure now that it's neither up2date nor
rhn-applet. I am 100% sure that either (a) consolehelper, in the usermode
package, is broken, or (b) something else is breaking consolehelper.

BTW, this is usermode-1.67-2.

Comment 3 Barry K. Nathan 2003-09-05 01:55:01 UTC

BTW, I managed to do the following in my testing:

(a) I reproduced this bug with redhat-config-xfree86
(b) I moved /usr/sbin/up2date to /usr/sbin/up2date.real (to get it out of the
way), copied /bin/true to /usr/sbin/up2date, then reproduced the bug with
/usr/bin/up2date.

Comment 4 Barry K. Nathan 2003-09-05 01:57:21 UTC

I'm going to "Reassign bug to owner and QA contact of selected component" since
I've now selected usermode and not up2date. I hope that's the right thing to do...

Comment 5 Barry K. Nathan 2003-09-05 02:26:13 UTC

I guess this bug is a dupe of 75834. However, as far as I can tell, it's only
been fixed in Rawhide and not in the RHEL beta channel on RHN yet. For that
reason I'm hesitant to resolve this bug as a dupe at this time, but if anyone
thinks I should go ahead with that anyway, please let me know.

Comment 6 Barry K. Nathan 2003-10-27 17:53:31 UTC

usermode 1.68-5 from the RHEL 3 final release (compiled from SRPM from
ftp.redhat.com) fixes this problem -- I've verified that