Hide Forgot
Kinda weird, so here's steps for a reproducer - Launch system-config-printer as non-root - Click 'Server', highlight the 'Settings' entry and mouse click multiple times really fast Expected result: modal polkit dialog pops up asking for root password Actual result: dialog never appears. (You might need to highlight the far right side of the 'Settings' entry to avoid clicking the 'add printer' button underneath) This isn't specific to system-config-printer: I noticed the issue originally in virt-manager. Occasionally, manually connecting to libvirt would fail. Running polkitd by hand reported the following info $ cat ~/out ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.1483 is inquiring whether unix-process:18787:74715972 is authorized for org.libvirt.unix.manage ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: user of caller is unix-user:root ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: user of subject is unix-user:crobinso ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: checking whether unix-process:18787:74715972 is authorized for org.libvirt.unix.manage ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: 0x7fe1f0029c70 ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session9 (local=1 active=1) ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: challenge (implicit_authorization = auth_admin_keep) ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: using authentication agent for challenge Error performing authentication: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Cancelled: Authentication dialog was dismissed by the user (polkit-error-quark 1) ** (polkitd:17168): DEBUG: In check_authorization_challenge_cb subject unix-process:18787:74715972 action_id org.libvirt.unix.manage was_dismissed 1 authentication_success 0 But I didn't dismiss anything. In practice people are unlikely to hit this in system-config-printer, but in virt-manager one of the ways you can connect to libvirt is double clicking a a connection row in the main window, which can occasionally trigger this issue. Let me know if any more info is needed
Hm, tricky issue bug that (potentially) crosses many different modules. Without actually debugging it yet, my *guess* is that what's happening is that the authorization dialog is being focus-stealing-prevented; i.e. if the time of the authentication request is before your last click, we don't show it. The relevant components here are: polkit polkit-gnome gnome-shell
This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
Still relevant in F18
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
The polkit agent provider comes from gnome shell IIUC, changing component
This message is a reminder that Fedora 18 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 18. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '18'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 18 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.
Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.