[Bug 816842] Re: Unable to authenticate Gnome applications after a recent update of libdbus-1-3 dbus dbus-x11

Jamie Strandboge jamie at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 27 12:37:32 UTC 2011 

Thank you for using Ubuntu and reporting a bug. You need to reboot your
system after the upgrade of dbus packages (this is mentioned in
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1176-1/ and you should have been prompted
after upgrading). Please upgrade back to 1.2.16-2ubuntu4.3, reboot and
try again.

I have tested this on an up to date 10.04 LTS system and everything
works as expected after rebooting. I attached a disk and then used
System/Administration Disk Utility to format the drive with a new MBR
and create a FAT partition. I then went to Places and mounted the new
partition. Within nautilus, I unmounted and and mounted and unmounted
the partition along with adding files along the way.

** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)

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Title:
  Unable to authenticate Gnome applications after a recent update of
  libdbus-1-3 dbus dbus-x11

Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS x64 and there has been a recent update of the following packages:
  libdbus-1-3 dbus dbus-x11 libpng12-0 libsndfile1

  Right after this update, without rebooting, I tried to mount
  partitions which didn't work. I'm using the correct passwords and
  tried with another user account as well. I'm getting the following
  error in logs when I try to mount any unmounted partitions from within
  nautilus or the 'places tab':

  Jul 27 13:25:29 user-mech polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-
  session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 FAILED to authenticate to
  gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set
  for system-bus-name::1.145 [users-admin] (owned by unix-user:gopal)

  In order to collect more information on this, I checked for the
  processes that come up when the "Authentication Window" opens and
  found that the following daemons run:

  /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 under the local user(gopal)
   and
  /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd as root.

  
  I killed both the processes and did the following in order to view debug information:
  $gopal:/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
  $gopal:sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd

  I'm getting the following on the prompt where I've executed "/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1"
  polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticated failed: Authentication failure

  and

  on the prompt with "sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd":
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.41 is inquiring whether system-bus-name::1.130 is authorized for org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  user of caller is unix-user:root
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  user of subject is unix-user:gopal
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: checking whether system-bus-name::1.130 is authorized for org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:   0x1b9ed50
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (local=1 active=1)
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Dropping all .pkla caches for directory `/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d'
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  challenge (implicit_authorization = auth_admin_keep)
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG:  using authentication agent for challenge
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: Authentication complete, is_authenticated = 0
  ** (process:10433): DEBUG: In check_authorization_challenge_cb
    subject                system-bus-name::1.130
    action_id              org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
    authentication_success 0

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  I'll shortly try to downgrade the packages in order to see if it fixes the issue and will report back.

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