Bug 1532252 – Account settings segfault when run under root

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Bug 1532252 - Account settings segfault when run under root

Summary:	Account settings segfault when run under root

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	accountsservice (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	7.5
Assigned To:	Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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Keywords:	Regression

Duplicates:	1539536 1539601 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:	1438583 1454909 1527213 1544369
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Reported:	2018-01-08 08:39 EST by Jiri Koten
Modified:	2018-05-17 10:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	accountsservice-0.6.45-5.el7
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Clones:	1544369 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 09:10:18 EDT
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2018:0770	None	None	None	2018-04-10 09:11 EDT

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Description Jiri Koten 2018-01-08 08:39:59 EST

Created attachment 1378523 [details]
backtrace

Description of problem:
Running gnome-control-center user-accounts under root results in segfault.

The crash is probably related to unlocking of dialogs in the control-settings which require root privileges.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-3.26.2-3.el7


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to gnome session under root
2. run Account Settings
3.

Actual results:
Crash

Expected results:
No crash

Additional info:

Comment 5 Jiri Koten 2018-01-29 05:39:50 EST

*** Bug 1539601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jiri Koten 2018-01-29 09:27:43 EST

*** Bug 1539536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Ondrej Holy 2018-01-30 03:32:34 EST

As per the backtrace, this is a consequence of changes from Bug 1474579 and I suppose that the following patch for accountsservice should fix it. Thus moving this bug into accountsservice component.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104851

However, control-center may also segfault in certain cases if run under root, but I suppose that this is not a regression, but rather a long-term issue. Anyway, the patches from the following bug should fix it also. Please file another bug report if it is desired.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773673

Comment 9 Jiri Koten 2018-02-12 05:03:29 EST

The crash in accountsservice is fixed. But we need to fix also the consequent crash in g-c-c to fully fix the crash when run under root. Thus moving this bug to verified and cloning it for g-c-c.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 09:10:18 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0770

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