Hi,

On 08/26/2011 09:08 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:

I've spent some time trying to investigate why pkexec started to crash.

It seems that our 'etc' activation script ignored the fact that
/etc/polkit-1 is a symlink to /etc/static/polkit-1, and created a symlink
from /etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d to
/etc/static/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d.

But that's correct. /etc/static/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d is in turn a symlink to /nix/store/...-polkit-0.102/etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d.

As a result, I had a symlink from /etc/static/polkit/nullbackend.conf.d to
itself, and pkexec crashed.

How did it end up being a symlink to itself?

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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