Created attachment 705898 [details] Screenshot of popups Description of problem: ----------------------- > In KDE: > Getting a problem with the nepomuk server > Submit a bug report as not root > ABRT asks for the "'default' keyring" password (that would be the Gnome keyring, but that's another problem) > Enter password... > Bug is submitted > FINE! Now it's getting dicey: > ABRT seems to do some second step > A dialog pops up (probably from some Gnome application?) "Reading others problems requires authentication An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication is required to perform this action Password for root Action: Get problems from all users Vendor: The ABRT team" If this wasn't Linux, I would suspect a hack. > As I don't answer the dialog in a timely manner, ABRT complains with ANOTHER popup: "Can't get problem list from abrt-dbus: Timeout was reached." It is very unclear why ABRT would do what it does or what the user is supposed to do or whether he should be trusty enough to enter the system root password into a mystery dialogue. Clearly this procedure has to be thought over. See attached screenshot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ------------------------------------------------------------- abrt-2.0.20-1.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: ----------------- Happens from time to time.
You have checked the checkbox "Show all problems" which means showing problems of all users on the machine, which of course requires root password. The "mysterious dialogue" comes from policyKit not from ABRT. The only thing we could improve is the "Timeout reached" dialog, to make it more clear that it timed out because user didn't enter the password. What do you think?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry.) More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The information we've requested above is required in order to review this problem report further and diagnose or fix the issue if it is still present. Since it has been thirty days or more since we first requested additional information, we're assuming the problem is either no longer present in the current Fedora release, or that there is no longer any interest in tracking the problem. Setting status to "CLOSED: INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you still experience this problem after updating to our latest Fedora release and can provide the information previously requested, please feel free to reopen the bug report. In addition, abrt-gui has been replaced by gnome-abrt.
I can confirm that I just experienced this popup on Fedora 21... Had no idea what it was, and a search engine led me here. I'm using GNOME. Reopening...
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