Bug 594861
| Summary: | RFE: system-config-services needs to display a nice warning if authorizations are unobtainable | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | William Estrada <mrumunhum> |
| Component: | system-config-services | Assignee: | Nils Philippsen <nphilipp> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | nphilipp |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-08-10 15:24:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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One, possibly two problems with your setup: - You're exporting the display to another machine which causes all problems of havoc regarding ConsoleKit sessions and PolicyKit authorization. - I'm not sure if a FluxBox session offers a PolicyKit auth agent, even if run locally. This is necessary to obtain authorization which s-c-services needs to run privileged operations. As a workaround, you can run s-c-services as root, this will do all actions in one process, bypassing PolicyKit and dbus completely. I'll keep this open to enhance s-c-services (and python-slip) so that a more meaningful warning is displayed instead of a traceback. Thanks for taking the time to submit this request for enhancement. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to implement this feature, sorry for that. Because I don't actively develop system-config-services anymore, I won't likely find the time to work on this ticket, so I'll close this bug now. |
Description of problem: system-config-services fails to run Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora 12 system-config-services-docs-1.1.7-1.fc12.noarch system-config-services-0.99.43-1.fc12.noarch How reproducible: enter system-config-services in gnome-terminal Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open gnoeme-terminal 2.sudo su - 3.enter system-config-services Actual results: [root@server ~]# system-config-services Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/system-config-services", line 1040, in <module> GUI(use_dbus=use_dbus).run() File "/usr/sbin/system-config-services", line 958, in __init__ if slip.dbus.polkit.AreAuthorizationsObtainable(self.polkit_actions): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/slip/dbus/polkit.py", line 420, in AreAuthorizationsObtainable return __polkit.AreAuthorizationsObtainable(authorizations) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/slip/dbus/polkit.py", line 317, in AreAuthorizationsObtainable if not self._polkitd_interface(): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/slip/dbus/polkit.py", line 257, in _polkitd_interface PolKit.__determine_polkit_version() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/slip/dbus/polkit.py", line 240, in __determine_polkit_version raise VersionError("Cannot determine valid PolicyKit version.") slip.dbus.polkit.VersionError: Cannot determine valid PolicyKit version. Expected results: Open services GUI Additional info: Running Fluxbox on different PC using DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx.xx:1.0