[Mageia-dev] Problems with gnome-shell and polkit

Mon Sep 24 00:42:58 CEST 2012

Hi...
+
+After latest updates GDM works again, but
+I get a sad-computer-screen-of-death when I try to log in in Gnome.
+The culprit seems to be the gnome-shell / polkit interaction.
+With startx from vconsole I get this on .xsession-errors:
+
+Window manager warning: Log level 16: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
+     JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
+     JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject"'
+     JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js"'
+     JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '329'
+     JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"0 anonymous()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js:329
+1 wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204
+2 anonymous("name" = ""polkitAgent"")@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/__init__.js:56
+3 wrapper(""polkitAgent"")@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204
+4 anonymous("name" = ""polkitAgent"", 1, [object Array])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/__init__.js:22
+5 anonymous()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/__init__.js:21
+6 wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204
+7 anonymous()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/__init__.js:13
+8 wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204
+9 anonymous()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:145
+10 anonymous()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:239
+11 start()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:150
+12 <TOP LEVEL>@<main>:1
+"'
+
+If I comment this in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js, at least I
+can log in again:
+
+     enable: function() {
+         //this._native.register();
+     },
+
+     disable: function() {
+         //this._native.unregister();
+     },
+
+I have this versions of polkit:
+
+lib64polkit1_0-0.107-1.mga3 x86_64
+lib64polkit-gir1.0-0.107-1.mga3 x86_64
+polkit-0.107-1.mga3 x86_64
+polkit-desktop-policy-0.107-1.mga3 noarch
+polkit-gnome-0.105-1.mga2 x86_64
+
+Perhaps polkit-gnome is out of sync ?
+
+TIA
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+