Bug 388701 – gnome-base/gdm: After pressing 'Cancel' button the display manager is still asking permissions for shutting down from polkit (an agent is spawned to query root password)

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2011-10-27 20:40:41 UTC]

This is an old problem I am seeing for a long time and it's still there with latest polkit-gnome and Gnome 2.32 (I cannot test with Gnome 3 now)

Not sure if it's a polkit-gnome/gnome-session/gdm problem but, when I am logged in as other user in a console, polkit-gnome shows me a dialog asking me for root password when I try to poweroff from Gnome 2.32 session. But, if I click "Cancel", systems shuts down normally :-/

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-10-28 15:50:13 UTC]

Try removing "consolekit-0.4.1-shutdown-reboot-without-policies.patch" from sys-auth/consolekit.   Rebuild it, restart it, try again.

IMHO, we should ditch this patch.

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-10-28 15:52:29 UTC]

In any case, the $summary is very misleading as the bug is NOT in polkit-gnome in any case.    It's a bug in whatever called polkit-gnome and asked for privileges for shutting down, even though it already had them.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2011-10-28 18:23:40 UTC]

Sadly, it's the same :(

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2012-01-30 10:59:57 UTC]

Maybe other gnome team members can check this problem in Gnome3 (as I don't think this will be ever fixed in Gnome2)

[Comment 5 Matt Turner 2012-09-26 19:24:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Maybe other gnome team members can check this problem in Gnome3 (as I don't
> think this will be ever fixed in Gnome2)

I've seen the same thing with Gnome 3.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2012-09-27 06:38:05 UTC]

Not sure if maybe this should be reported to upstream then :|

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-10-24 06:27:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Not sure if maybe this should be reported to upstream then :|

Try latest gdm first, then report it as a bug of gdm to gnome's bugzilla

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2013-01-22 22:47:37 UTC]

Please try with gdm-3.6.