Bug#894273: policykit-1-gnome: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 fails to start when hidepid=2

2018-03-28 Thread ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್
Huh, thanks - I didn't think to look at polkit itself. Sorry for the dup. So it seems polkit itself is effectively completely broken when using hidepid, and there is no way to fix it without defeating the _purpose_ of hidepid (granting my user the privileges to see the full /proc tree basically

Bug#894273: policykit-1-gnome: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 fails to start when hidepid=2

2018-03-27 Thread Chiraag Nataraj
Package: policykit-1-gnome Version: 0.105-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I happen to run my system with /proc mounted with hidepid=2 for security reasons. I tried starting polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 as well as mate-polkit and they both failed (I use awesome window manager, so I