Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 524830
Malformed subject string error in method polkit_subject_from_string
Last modified: 2016-11-30 19:29:06 EST
Created attachment 362071 [details] Simple program for reproducing the bug Description of problem: Method "polkit_subject_to_string" returns string that "polkit_subject_from_string" doesn't understand to. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): polkit-0.94-3.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Compile and run the program from attachment. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Authorize some action with "keep" action 2. Run the program Actual results: Method "polkit_subject_from_string" returns this error: "Malformed subject string 'unix-process:12803:333196'" Expected results: It should return correct PolkitSubject. Additional info: Another strange this is that "g_type_init()" must be present in the code or program is segfaulting.
I can confirm the roundtrip error. The need to call g_type_init () is not a bug though.
I can't find any mention of calling g_type_init() in the documentation, do I miss something? It is in the example but it can be easily missed. Shouldn't it be more emphasised somehow?
It is probably worth mentioning, but it is pretty well-known that this is necessary when using gobject-based libraries. Of course, if you are using GTK+, this is handled for your by gtk_init() anyway.
Created attachment 362547 [details] patch Here is a patch that fixes the parsing of the starttime part of a process id string. Might be cleaner to just require the starttime to always be there, instead of parsing two different formats like my patch does.
Upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24197
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This has been fixed in 0.95