Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 798686
Permission problem in xfce related to bug 693152
Last modified: 2013-02-13 21:30:41 EST
Description of problem: Flash stick cannot be mounted as user (not root): cause "Not authorized" error dialog. Firewall util not asks for password, show error dialog "org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthorizedException.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth" and exit. PRM's cannot be installed by user, package manager don't asks for password just shows "Not authorized" error dialog. Etc. Just like bug 693152. I see what bug 693152 marked as fixed but guys it's not fixed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.8.2 How reproducible: I just download dvd iso Fedora 16 x86_64 and install system. Steps to Reproduce: 1. download dvd iso Fedora 16 x86_64 2. install system 3. switch to runlevel 3 4. reboot 5. start xfce by executing command $startxfce4 6. plug in flash stick 7. try to double click on flash stick icon what appears on desktop Actual results: 'Not authorized' error dialog Expected results: Flash stick opens in file manager Additional info:
You should not start Xfce like this. ;) Instead of doing 'startxfce4', if you instead do: - Create a ~/.xinitrc file with: #!/bin/sh exec startxfce4 - chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc - startx Does everything work?
Nope, Kevin. BTW I've downloaded iso again and check md5 checksum for new .iso and my old installation .iso - it's same. First I thought what my .iso is out of date, but it's not.
ok, from the failing session can you provide output of: ck-lists-sessions
Here it is: Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'ml' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = '' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '/dev/tty1' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2012-03-02T07:59:31.644661Z' login-session-id = '1' idle-since-hint = '2012-03-02T08:00:05.556965Z' (fpaste: http://fpaste.org/goTv/)
The "active = FALSE" sounds like a problem. If you boot in graphical mode and login via gdm does it work as expected?
Yes! It's works! I just login via GDM and choose Xfce session in session menu. Thank you so much, Kevin. I still need a way to automatically login into xface from terminal but here is not right place for such discussion I guess.
Hmmm. On my second PC it doesn't helps. Session still inactive :(
So, looks like startx is not properly registering with consolekit somehow. Moving over that component to see if there were any recent changes that could explain this.
Well there was this: commit c8f19e74c99cf9fc29e461300a6d1c15670323bb Author: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Date: Wed Nov 16 10:13:28 2011 -0500 Drop ConsoleKit integration, being removed in F17 I guess that wants reverting. Sigh. So much for "ConsoleKit removal", eh.
However, that doesn't really explain F16 being broken, since that change is only on the F17 and later branches.
Please drop the ConsoleKit stuff again, it must not be pulled-in by anything like X in Fedora 17. The desktop environments need to be fixed to work without Consolekit, or they need to pull-in ConsoleKit, not ConsoleKit cludge pinned by X to make other packages working. That is a really backwards logic. Thanks!
I think we could look at subpackaging somehow here. Surely gnome/kde don't call 'startx' or 'xinit' do they? We can have xinit/startx dep on consolekit, and leave the rest alone?
ajax: should we discuss a better way of adjusting F17 in this bug, or should we file a new bug so as not to lose the f16 bug, which is likely something different? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
gdm/kdm generally need the infrastructure bits from /etc/X11/, so 2 options: 1. put those bits in (something like) xorg-x11-xinit-common which can be Requires'd by xorg-x11-xinit, kdm, gdm, and friends or 2. split out /usr/bin/ck-xinit-session (which has a separate Source anyway), into some subpkg, which non gdm/kdm DE's can depend on
Lennart notes on IRC: <mezcalero> note that device access control in F16 already was not CK's business but systemd's so on F16 already startx was borked in this regard dropping CK support from startx doesn't change anything effectively That explains why this bug is against F16. It also means that re-adding the CK dep doesn't actually achieve anything. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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