On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:10:42 -0500 Conrad Knight <iestynap...@gmail.com> said:

> I'm having a problem with E's polkit module. I was running
> pamac-manager and it asked for authentication. The password dialog box
> popped up, i entered my password, but then got an authentication
> failure error message.
> 
> There's some output in .e-log.log that looks relevant:
> 
> AUTH: POLKIT:
> [3-85675816164cbd241ec6e8b4f92b0e4f-3-a4ac0b07e510e40440dbf83b5e4bcfb8] AUTH:
> UID: [1000] AUTH: readpass...
> AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
> =================================================================
> ==99121==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address
> 0x000000000000 (pc 0x000000000000 bp 0x7fffdece1aa0 sp 0x7fffd
> ece1228 T0)
> ==99121==Hint: pc points to the zero page.
> ==99121==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
> ==99121==Hint: address points to the zero page.
>     #0 0x0  (<unknown module>)
>     #1 0x7fb5b6ceb74b  (/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so+0x574b)
> 
> AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
> SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV (<unknown module>)
> ==99121==ABORTING
> 
> If i unload the polkit module and manually start
> polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 instead, and then try again,
> everything works: i get a gnome password dialog box instead of an E
> one, i enter my password, and pamac starts its update process.
> 
> I don't know when this problem may have started, as i rarely use
> pamac. Hmm, it just occurred to me that gparted also asks for
> authentication with polkit. Tried running that, and the same thing
> happens. After entering my password, i get an E error dialog telling
> me "Enlightenment was unable to run the application...". And there's
> another, similar message in .e-log.log.
> 
> Any ideas what might be wrong?

something seems to be jumping to the NULL address - some function ptr is null
maybe? but this is INSIDE the pam module. (sorry accidentally sent too early).

now i don't have any trace beyond that pam module. i don't know how it's ending
up in this pam module. i don't even know for sure WHAT is ending up there. what
process?

> Thanks,
> -Conrad.
> 
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