[Bug 1821415] Re: pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment
Iain Lane
1821415 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Apr 6 17:48:36 UTC 2021
(but I asked for some input there from an apport maintainer, it could be
better than I did it)
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Title:
pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment
Status in PolicyKit:
New
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as
the root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting
that information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not
in a non-graphical one.
N.B. you first need to create a /var/log/plymouth-debug.log file for
the plymouth apport package hook to actually trigger this.
ubuntu at disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth
*** Collecting problem information
The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu)
Password: ....
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
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