Bug 585688

Summary: [abrt] crash in gnome-lirc-properties-0.4.0-1.fc12: connection.py:630:call_blocking:DBusException: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Error parsing subject struct
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kenny Armstrong <karmstrong>
Component: polkitAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: bnocera, davidz, fkooman, linux, mclasen, sgc2
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kenny Armstrong 2010-04-25 16:06:44 UTC
abrt 1.0.9 detected a crash.

architecture: x86_64
cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gnome-lirc-properties
comment: Just try to run the Infrared Remote Control utility
component: gnome-lirc-properties
executable: /usr/bin/gnome-lirc-properties
kernel: 2.6.33.2-57.fc13.x86_64
package: gnome-lirc-properties-0.4.0-1.fc12
reason: connection.py:630:call_blocking:DBusException: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Error parsing subject struct
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

backtrace
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connection.py:630:call_blocking:DBusException: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Error parsing subject struct

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-lirc-properties", line 27, in <module>
    gnome_lirc_properties.run(sys.argv[1:], datadir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnome_lirc_properties/__init__.py", line 57, in run
    return ui.RemoteControlProperties(gtk.glade.XML(ui_filename)).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnome_lirc_properties/ui/RemoteControlProperties.py", line 56, in __init__
    self.__setup_authorization()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnome_lirc_properties/ui/RemoteControlProperties.py", line 223, in __setup_authorization
    granted = self.__auth.is_authorized()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnome_lirc_properties/policykit.py", line 45, in is_authorized
    action_id, {}, dbus.UInt32(0), '', timeout=600)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Error parsing subject struct

Local variables in innermost frame:
byte_arrays: False
self: <dbus._dbus.SystemBus (system) at 0x14b28f0>
args: (('unix-process', {'pid': dbus.UInt32(2590L, variant_level=1)}), 'org.gnome.lirc-properties.mechanism.configure', {}, dbus.UInt32(0L), '')
utf8_strings: False
bus_name: dbus.UTF8String(':1.28')
get_args_opts: {'byte_arrays': False, 'utf8_strings': False}
object_path: '/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority'
timeout: 600
signature: u'(sa{sv})sa{ss}us'
dbus_interface: 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority'
message: <dbus.lowlevel.MethodCallMessage object at 0x107bd68>
method: 'CheckAuthorization'

How to reproduce
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1.  Just tried to use the Infrared Remote Control utility and it immediately crashes
2.
3.

Comment 1 Kenny Armstrong 2010-04-25 16:06:46 UTC
Created attachment 408972 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 romal 2010-05-15 17:48:41 UTC
Package: gnome-lirc-properties-0.4.0-1.fc12
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)


How to reproduce
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1.Starting gnome-lirc-properties
2.
3.

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2010-05-24 11:17:44 UTC
This is a regression in PolicyKit's arguments parsing, see:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28228

Comment 4 Scott Carpenter 2010-11-29 20:02:02 UTC
I was able to get around this by making a minor change to line 44 of policykit.py
--
change:

        (is_auth, _, details) = self.policy_kit.CheckAuthorization(
                       	('unix-process', {'pid': dbus.UInt32(pid, variant_level=1)}),
                        action_id, {}, dbus.UInt32(0), '', timeout=600)
        logging.debug('%s: authorized=%r', action_id, is_auth)

to:

        (is_auth, _, details) = self.policy_kit.CheckAuthorization(
                       	('unix-process', {'pid': dbus.UInt32(pid, variant_level=1),'start-time':0}),
                        action_id, {}, dbus.UInt32(0), '', timeout=600)
        logging.debug('%s: authorized=%r', action_id, is_auth)

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 14:52:55 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 15:52:10 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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