Bug 874460

Summary: System modal dialogs dismissed automatically
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stef Walter <stefw>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: admiller, fmuellner, mclasen, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Stef Walter 2012-11-08 09:20:10 UTC 
Description of problem:

On one of my machines I have a problem where system modal dialogs are sometimes dismissed automatically. This is true of polkit dialogs and keyring dialogs. At first I thought it was just a fluke of something I had broken, but this continued after reinstalling things and making sure gnome-shell was in a clean state. It does not only show up for one type of system modal dialog.

See the attached videos for examples.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Reinstalling:
 gnome-shell       x86_64       3.6.1-3.fc18        updates-testing       1.1 M

How reproducible:

Randomly. Maybe 20% of the time.

Steps to Reproduce:

On my system, running one of these repeatedly and at random times will help you encounter the issue. Since 'gpg --sign' does not quit after one prompt (it prompts 3 times) it is easier to reproduce that way.

1. gpg --sign # need a private gpg key without password stored in keyring
2. pkexec bash
  
Actual results:

Prompts dismiss themselves immediately.

Expected results:

Prompts wait for input.
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2012-11-08 09:28:26 UTC 
David, not sure if you've seen other complains about this on polkit dialogs?
Comment 2 Stef Walter 2012-11-08 09:31:51 UTC 
Created attachment 640670 [details]
pkexec polkit dialog automatically closed

In this video I run 'pkexec bash' several times.

 * The first time, the dialog waits for my input, and I cancel it.
 * The second time, it immediately completes without my input (but polkit
   dialogs wait a few seconds before displaying message and going away).
 * The third time, I start typing, and the dialog completes out from underneath
   me without me pressing enter.
Comment 3 Stef Walter 2012-11-08 09:34:39 UTC 
Created attachment 640671 [details]
gpg agent dialog dismissed automatically

In this video I run 'gpg --sign' to show a modal dialog, (shown via the keyring gpg-agent).

 * The first three times I run the command, the dialog appears and behaves
   as expected. I cancel the dialog, sometimes after typing input.
 * The fourth time you can clearly see the dialog is completed automatically 
   without my input. It is shown again rapidly later, as if I had typed the 
   wrong password.
Comment 4 David Zeuthen 2012-11-08 13:55:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> David, not sure if you've seen other complains about this on polkit dialogs?

No, never seen anything like that and never had an issue with it (and I auth using polkit dialogs tens of times daily - mostly because I work on udisks and other system daemons)....

My guess is that your PAM configuration is hosed or something?
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