Bug 693152

Not a PackageKit issue, re-assigning to something more valid.

How did you install Xfce ?

what does: 'rpm -qa | grep polkit' output?

(In reply to comment #2)
> How did you install Xfce ?
> 
> what does: 'rpm -qa | grep polkit' output?

I installed XFCE using the F15 Beta candidate "Feora-15-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso
"

Here's the output of $ rpm -qa grep polkit
polkit-0.101-4.fc15.x86_64
grep-2.7-4.fc15.x86_64

Thanks for looking into this issue.

if you do a: 

yum install polkit-gnome

does it start working as expected?

No, not working.  I have had polkit-gnome installed.
$ rpm -q polkit-gnome
polkit-gnome-0.101-1.fc15.x86_64

I can reproduce this bug using the same Feora-15-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso (though from the live environment, not installed). Trying to modify the firewall with system-config-firewall brings up the following error:

org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthorizedException.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth 

The same bug also seems to be preventing me from mounting installed partitions.

polkit-gnome and gnome-keyring are both installed, and the gnome-keyring daemon is running.

Nathan

I use Xfce on Fedora 15. I use system-config-firewall, I get error message:

"org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthorizedException.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth:"

If I use system-config-firewall tool on root account (su -c system-config-firewall), work it. (Sorry my very poor english. :( )

Could folks try switching to gdm from lxdm? 

The nightlys starting tonight should have gdm instead, if you have an installed system doing a 'yum install gdm' and then moving /etc/sysconfig/desktop aside should get you gdm on boot. 

I'd like to see if this problem persists with gdm...

(In reply to comment #8)
> Could folks try switching to gdm from lxdm? 
> 
> The nightlys starting tonight should have gdm instead, if you have an installed
> system doing a 'yum install gdm' and then moving /etc/sysconfig/desktop aside
> should get you gdm on boot. 
> 
> I'd like to see if this problem persists with gdm...

The problem persists with gdm.  I installed gdm and renamed /etc/sysconfig/desktop to desktop_old.  On reboot, I got gdm at login (it was the Gnome 3 login splash screen).  But the problem with packagekit and firewall remained.  Thanks for continuing to work on this problem.

I use gdm, too. system-config-firewall work only if I started from root terminal.

This is the result of http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000758.html, thus we need to ship a desktop file to start polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1. Fixed package is building now.

xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15

xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15 work correctly. Firewall GUI, virtual machine manager work.

Thank you! :)

Package xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

(In reply to comment #14)
> Package xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15:
> * should fix your issue,
> * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
> * should be available at your local mirror within two days.
> Update it with:
> # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15'
> as soon as you are able to.

The authentication agent now starts when using firewall and add/remove software.  However, I get SE Linux errors when changing firewall settings, No such errors when I use "sudo system-config-firewall" from command line.  No problems with add/remove packagekit application.  Thank you.  Do I still need to use gdm?

Please report the selinux errors in a new bug against selinux-policy. 

lxdm might well work ok now, you could try it and see. 

Thanks.

(In reply to comment #16)
> Please report the selinux errors in a new bug against selinux-policy. 

Will do so.
 
> lxdm might well work ok now, you could try it and see. 

Yes, lxdm works fine.

Thanks for all of your help.

xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Fedora 16 x86_64,Xfce desktop has the same problem.

It should't. How did you install Xfce? The Xfce spin does not have this problem.

Please give me the output of:

 $ ps aux | grtep polkit
 $ rpm | grep polkit
 $ cat ~/.config/autostart/xfce-polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop

Thanks!

I have discovered that if you choose the classic gnome screen with compiz then you do not get an authentication screen and update software fails.
I run fedora 16 and prefer the classic screen.
My fix is that at login I choose the gnome 3 screen and do my software updates then log out and go to my classic screen. 
I found the equivalent file mentioned in comment 20 so it appears that if you fail to start gnome 3 and fallback to a classic screen then the authentication is started, but if you choose the classic screen then it does not.