From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 StumbleUpon/1.903 Description of problem: When running a program from the menu that requires root privelages I get prompted for a password. If after typing in the password I hit enter instead of clicking OK, X freezes up. Switching to a virtual console doesn't work, CTRL+ALT+Backspace doesn't work and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. The only way to recover is to hit the reboot key. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run a program that requires root privelages from the menu 2. Type in your password 3. Hit enter (Clicking OK will not reproduce this bug for me) Actual Results: X freezes. Expected Results: I get authenticated and the program runs. Additional info:
It's now doing it even when I click OK. I launched the Add/Remove program, typed in my password, clicked OK and although the program ran, it froze immediately. Is there anyway to get a log of what userhelper is doing? Also it seems that CTRL+ALT+Del does work, it was just taking longer than I expected.
X does *not* freeze (Although attempting to close it seems to freeze X and the entire system). I am able to navigate using the keyboard, doing so I was able to check the output from dmesg and noticed: usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0in This bug seems to have exactly the same effects as another bug I've reported (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125389) which leads me to believe they're related, although how I don't know. Are userhelper, hwbrowser and kudzu related somehow?
Simon, I'm unable to reproduce this on FC2, gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1. It looks weird. The possible problem is a broken installation I guess. But after seeing the bug above I doubt it is hardware issue. The hwbrowser also works for me.
Sorry I didn't report this sooner, the bug is caused by/related to a VIA USB chipset bug in earlier 2.6 kernels (the only info i can find about it is at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100errata.php3). I still have no idea why this stuff is being invoked just to authenticate me (happens under KDE as well IIRC).