Am 2012-09-13 20:56, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >> Am 13.09.2012 19:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> I actually hadn't thought about downgrading polkit, since it was >>>> working with the same version in GNOME 3.2. Or maybe it was a fluke >>>> (the bug is reproducible, but sometimes I need to try several times). >>>> I will try downgrading. >>> >>> Didn't work with 0.106-r7 (which I had to hunt from the Attic), and I >>> cannot downgrade to 0.104 since udisks:2 depends on it. So I suppose >>> we need to nudge David again. >> >> Yes, that conflict sounds familiar ... I hit that one also! > > I took another look at polkit's and gnome-shell's source code. I > didn't do it before since I have work to do and (as I said) the > problems are somewhat workaroundables. After looking at the code, the > plot thickens: > > gnome-shell registers itself to polkit as a PolkitUnixSession: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/src/shell-polkit-authentication-agent.c?id=3.4.2#n106 > > polkit will not deal with that in subject_to_jsval: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendjsauthority.c?id=0.107#n730 > > The funny thing? Both code paths were written by David Zeuthen, which > by the way is the one handling the bug. > > It gets better: I changed gnome-shell's code so it registers itself as > PolkitUnixProcess (which supposedly is handled by subject_to_jsval), > and I put printf's in the function subject_to_jsval. It turns out > that, no matter that it actually gets registered as unix-process, > gnome-shell it's also registered (at some point) as unix-session. > > My feeling is that gnome-shell should get registered as > system-bus-name (which it does), and that should be the "primary" > interface of gnome-shell for polkit. However, in Gentoo (I haven't > found any other mention of this bug in any other distro), somehow the > unix-session interface takes control. > > I updated the bug: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53905 > > and I hope David will respond soon.
Great to hear, thanks so far. Looking forward to his reply .... Stefan
