Bug 686418

Summary:	sys-auth/polkit-0.116: restart loop
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexey Korepanov <kaikaikai>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kaikaikai, pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Alexey Korepanov 2019-05-20 22:45:52 UTC

I upgraded to polkit-0.116 and then was not able to use NetworkManager's nmappet : attempts to connect to wifi resulted in the error "Not authorized to control networking". System logs (/var/log/messages) are full of:

May 21 00:29:46 teres polkitd[12089]: Started polkitd version 0.116
May 21 00:29:46 teres polkitd[12089]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
May 21 00:29:46 teres polkitd[12089]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
May 21 00:29:46 teres polkitd[12089]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 5 rules
May 21 23:29:46 teres dbus-daemon[1772]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
May 21 23:29:47 teres dbus-daemon[1772]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.2' (uid=0 pid=1844 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /run/NetworkMa") (using servicehelper)
May 21 00:29:47 teres polkitd[12101]: Started polkitd version 0.116
May 21 00:29:47 teres polkitd[12101]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
May 21 00:29:47 teres polkitd[12101]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
May 21 00:29:47 teres polkitd[12101]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 5 rules
May 21 00:29:47 teres dbus-daemon[1772]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
May 21 00:29:47 teres dbus-daemon[1772]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.2' (uid=0 pid=1844 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /run/NetworkMa") (using servicehelper)

repeating every second.

Downgrading to polkit-0.115-r3 solved the problem right away.

Polkit was built with USE="consolekit introspection nls pam -elogind -examples -gtk -jit -kde (-selinux) -systemd -test".

I am on arm64 laptop, use openrc.

It is not quite clear to me how to debug this, but I would be happy to provide additional information.

Comment 1 Alexey Korepanov 2019-05-20 22:47:18 UTC

Created attachment 577438 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-11-19 11:36:43 UTC

are you still hitting this with 0.116-r1 and an updated system?

Comment 3 Alexey Korepanov 2019-12-14 13:26:09 UTC

Hi. I updated the system, switched to systemd, and I do not observe this bug any more. I'm marking it as resolved.