pkcheck throws segfault when run without the action argument - I don't think segfaulting should be a normal behaviour Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. list acrtion with pkaction, pick on, e.g. org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart 2. pick some process get its PID 3. run 'pkcheck -p $PID -a $ACTION' , it should work and works (for the restart action it will probably produce 'Not authorized.') 3. run 'pkcheck -p $PID' , it produces: ** (pkcheck:NNNN): CRITICAL **: polkit_authority_check_authorization_sync: assertion 'action_id != NULL' failed Segmentation fault Actual Results: segfaults - "see steps to reproduce" NNNN - us a number that changes with every attempt Expected Results: prints error message about missing action id Portage 2.2.26 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/developer, gcc-4.8.5, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.1.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.1.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4790K_CPU_@_4.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16309952 total, 365904 free KiB Swap: 8965568 total, 8965568 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:45:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.3.5-r2::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.18.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3-r1::gentoo, 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.5::gentoo, 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.21-r1::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.at.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-extra-opts: --timeout=1000 --delete-after ovirt-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/ovirt-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 0 runner-s-overlay location: /opt/portage masters: gentoo priority: 1 gamerlay location: /var/lib/layman/gamerlay sync-type: git sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/gamerlay.git ~~~~~~~~~~ java location: /var/lib/layman/java sync-type: git sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/java.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 nikai location: /var/lib/layman/nikai sync-type: git sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/user/nikai.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 tox-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/tox-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: git@github.com:Tox/gentoo-overlay-tox.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core-avx2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.2/conf /usr/ CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-r CXXFLAGS="-march=core-avx2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks downgrade-backup ebuild-locks fixlafi FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=1000 --delete-after" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAG
Looks like an upstream bug, could you report it at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PolicyKit&component=daemon and paste the link here ?
Should be a simple contribution to upstream should anyone want to do this.
Not at computer to check but wonder if https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/7550b683c0fe514d4cb8a173f4ee5b2410c7c3cd fixes this
I can confirm that the issue is gone now. Insteald of a segfault pkcgeck now spits out this error message: polkit_authority_check_authorization_sync: assertion 'action_id != NULL' failed Error checking for authorization (null): Could not verify; error object not present.
