Bug 388701

Summary:	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)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

2011-10-28 18:23:40 UTC

Sadly, it's the same :(

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

2012-09-27 06:38:05 UTC

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

Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2013-01-22 22:47:37 UTC

Please try with gdm-3.6.