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and subject line Bug#1124472: fixed in riseup-vpn 0.25.8+ds3-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #1124472,
regarding riseup-vpn: "cinnamon : could not find polkit agent"
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Package: riseup-vpn
Version: 0.24.10+ds1-1+deb13u1.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintener,
* What led up to the situation? I am using cinnamon, riseup-vpn start failed
with the following message : "could not find polkit agent".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)? I launched riseup-vpn in a Cinnamon session
* What was the outcome of this action? it failed with the message "could not
find polkit agent".
* What outcome did you expect instead ? That riseup-vpn starts normally.
Patching pkg/launcher/launcher_linux.go and adding "cinnamon" to the
polkitProcNames array in the isPolkitRunning function solved the problem. I'm
attaching the patch to this report. Thanks !
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages riseup-vpn depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20250419
ii cinnamon [polkit-1-auth-agent] 6.4.10-2
ii iproute2 6.15.0-1
ii iptables 1.8.11-2
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libqt6core6t64 6.8.2+dfsg-9+deb13u1
ii libqt6gui6 6.8.2+dfsg-9+deb13u1
ii libqt6qml6 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt6svg6 6.8.2-3
ii libqt6widgets6 6.8.2+dfsg-9+deb13u1
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii mate-polkit [polkit-1-auth-agent] 1.26.1-4+b1
ii openvpn 2.6.14-1+deb13u1
ii pkexec 126-2
ii procps 2:4.0.4-9
ii python3 3.13.5-1
ii qml6-module-qt-labs-platform 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qt-labs-settings 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtcore 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtqml-workerscript 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-controls 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-dialogs 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-effects 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-layouts 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-templates 6.8.2+dfsg-7
ii qml6-module-qtquick-window 6.8.2+dfsg-7
Versions of packages riseup-vpn recommends:
ii qt6-wayland 6.8.2-4
riseup-vpn suggests no packages.
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--- riseup-vpn-0.24.10+ds1.orig/pkg/launcher/launcher_linux.go
+++ riseup-vpn-0.24.10+ds1/pkg/launcher/launcher_linux.go
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ func isPolkitRunning() (bool, error) {
"fingerprint-polkit-agent",
"xfce-polkit",
"phosh",
+ "cinnamon",
}
processes, err := ps.Processes()
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: riseup-vpn
Source-Version: 0.25.8+ds3-4
Done: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
riseup-vpn, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:27:42 +0530
Source: riseup-vpn
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Version: 0.25.8+ds3-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
Closes: 1124472
Changes:
riseup-vpn (0.25.8+ds3-4) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Add patch to add in more desktop environments and polkit
binary paths to startup polkit on service start. (Closes: #1124472)
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.3 (no changes needed)
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