Bug 699233 - PolicyKit authentication does not work in F15 with classic gnome+compiz session
Summary: PolicyKit authentication does not work in F15 with classic gnome+compiz session
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: compiz
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: leigh scott
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-24 12:37 UTC by Sandro Mani
Modified: 2012-08-07 16:47 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 953696 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:47:00 UTC
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Description Sandro Mani 2011-04-24 12:37:39 UTC
Description of problem:
Authentication constantly fails with Failed to obtain authentication.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-gnome-0.101-1.fc15.x86_64
polkit-desktop-policy-0.101-5.fc15.noarch
polkit-0.101-5.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login using the classic gnome + compiz session
2. Try performing any action that requires polkit authentication
3. 
  
Actual results:
Always fails with "Failed to obtain authentication", password prompt is never shown.

Expected results:
Authentication works

Additional info:
dmesg does not contain any usefull info, i.e. just
Apr 24 14:33:09 PC4 dbus: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' argv0='/lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper'
Apr 24 14:33:09 PC4 dbus: [system] Service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' is already active
Apr 24 14:33:09 PC4 dbus: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit

Comment 1 Sandro Mani 2011-04-29 20:08:44 UTC
I located the problem as being that the authentication agent is never started.
On a F14 installation:
locate autostart | grep pol
/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop

On a F15 installation:
locate autostart | grep pol
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop

polkit-gnome provides the /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop file in F14 but not in F15.

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2011-05-02 17:30:42 UTC
You need to include an autostart file for polkit-gnome-authentication-agent in your compiz-gnome session. The autostart file shipped with gnome-session only starts the agent in the gnome fallback session.

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-01 20:26:05 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Adam Spiers 2011-09-19 12:49:21 UTC
This is also an issue with GNOME+Openbox on Fedora 15.  I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed yet because it seems to stop any browser-based package installation from working.

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