Bug 825602

Summary:	Cannot register authentication agent! (prelink related)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sergio Basto <sergio>
Component:	polkit-kde	Assignee:	Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, than
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Description Sergio Basto 2012-05-28 03:43:11 UTC

Description of problem:
after upgrade to F17 , I got several "not authorized" 


see for example bug 820675 

I  notice when I run polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1, I got  assertion Failed

/usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
New PolkitAgentListener  0x225bac0 
Adding new listener  PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x23d0b50) for  0x225bac0 
"Cannot create unix session: No session for pid 8986" 

** (process:8986): CRITICAL **: polkit_agent_listener_register: assertion `POLKIT_IS_SUBJECT (subject)' failed
"Cannot register authentication agent!" 

(process:8986): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

How I fix this ?

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2012-05-29 14:28:43 UTC

polkit works just fine, seems like it's a problem with KDE's usage of it, reassigning

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2012-05-29 14:31:51 UTC

rpm -q polkit-qt polkit-kde

please.

While we're at it, may be worth doing:

yum distro-sync

to make sure you've got the right versions of all packages installed (in case something got missed during the upgrade)

Comment 3 Sergio Basto 2012-05-29 17:56:31 UTC

hi , I will provide detailed information at end of the night (2300 UTC) , this happens on my home desktop. 

but I think I had done yum distro-sync and use 
rpmconf to clean up rpmnew and rpmsaves, and I think this begins to happens just after rpmconf cleanup !

Comment 4 Sergio Basto 2012-05-29 22:53:57 UTC

Hi, I already fixed it. but could happen to someone else.

rpm -q polkit-qt polkit-kde
polkit-qt-0.103.0-2.fc17.x86_64
polkit-kde-0.99.0-4.fc17.x86_64

but: rpm -q polkit-qt polkit-kde -V
I got several 
prelink: (...).so: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking

I remember that I had already run /etc/cron.daily/prelink 

so I do 
yum reinstall polkit-qt-0.103.0-2.fc17.x86_64 polkit-kde-0.99.0-4.fc17.x86_64

and after reboot (important) every thing works fine. 
and rpm -q polkit-qt polkit-kde -V gives a clean result.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2012-05-29 23:03:01 UTC

that's odd, so basically some prelink wierdness going on, fun.

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2012-05-30 14:10:26 UTC

Are you using the proprietary NVidia driver? If so, it's probably a duplicate of bug #751891.

Comment 7 Sergio Basto 2012-05-30 17:16:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Are you using the proprietary NVidia driver? If so, it's probably a
> duplicate of bug #751891.

I use the proprietary NVidia driver, on that machine ,
but prelink warnings was in rpm -V polkit-qt polkit-kde 

but don't see any relation,  I just got a simple message that can't register authentication agent , and apper pop ups a dialog saying that I am not authorized. 

any way see if I have problems with prelink ?