Description of problem: On one of my machines I have a problem where system modal dialogs are sometimes dismissed automatically. This is true of polkit dialogs and keyring dialogs. At first I thought it was just a fluke of something I had broken, but this continued after reinstalling things and making sure gnome-shell was in a clean state. It does not only show up for one type of system modal dialog. See the attached videos for examples. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Reinstalling: gnome-shell x86_64 3.6.1-3.fc18 updates-testing 1.1 M How reproducible: Randomly. Maybe 20% of the time. Steps to Reproduce: On my system, running one of these repeatedly and at random times will help you encounter the issue. Since 'gpg --sign' does not quit after one prompt (it prompts 3 times) it is easier to reproduce that way. 1. gpg --sign # need a private gpg key without password stored in keyring 2. pkexec bash Actual results: Prompts dismiss themselves immediately. Expected results: Prompts wait for input.
David, not sure if you've seen other complains about this on polkit dialogs?
Created attachment 640670 [details] pkexec polkit dialog automatically closed In this video I run 'pkexec bash' several times. * The first time, the dialog waits for my input, and I cancel it. * The second time, it immediately completes without my input (but polkit dialogs wait a few seconds before displaying message and going away). * The third time, I start typing, and the dialog completes out from underneath me without me pressing enter.
Created attachment 640671 [details] gpg agent dialog dismissed automatically In this video I run 'gpg --sign' to show a modal dialog, (shown via the keyring gpg-agent). * The first three times I run the command, the dialog appears and behaves as expected. I cancel the dialog, sometimes after typing input. * The fourth time you can clearly see the dialog is completed automatically without my input. It is shown again rapidly later, as if I had typed the wrong password.
(In reply to comment #1) > David, not sure if you've seen other complains about this on polkit dialogs? No, never seen anything like that and never had an issue with it (and I auth using polkit dialogs tens of times daily - mostly because I work on udisks and other system daemons).... My guess is that your PAM configuration is hosed or something?
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