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Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
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Authentication issue on Trusty / Xfce #798

Closed twoplan closed 10 years ago

twoplan commented 10 years ago

New installed programs, which require authentication (like Synaptic or Gparted), don't start from the application menu. The dialog box for user authentication does not pop up. Running them from the terminal asks there for the password and they start.

Trusty with Xfce on Samsung arm chromebook.

$ sudo enter-chroot croutonversion Entering /usr/local/chroots/trusty... crouton: version 1-20140419231002~master:d2b7ebbd release: trusty architecture: armhf targets: audio,keyboard,xfce host: version 5500.100.6 (Official Build) stable-channel daisy

picostove commented 10 years ago

This sounds like #457. When you try to launch gparted or synaptic, does it print an error message? How are you launching them from the terminal?

twoplan commented 10 years ago

It prints no error message .. nothing happens. Synaptic launched from the terminal looks this way:

$ synaptic-pkexec ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager Authenticating as: <<< user >>> Password: <<< password entered >>> ==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===

Then the normal Synaptic windows gets displayed. Same with gparted-pkexec.

picostove commented 10 years ago

Looks like the same root cause as #457. /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 needs logind to identify the session it's running in, so this should be fixed when #699 is merged. I've just verified this in my test chroot - without logind, polkit is falling back to text-only input (which, bizarrely, is showing up in crosh if you use the applications menu to launch synaptic-pkexec). With logind, you get a nice password prompt as expected.

twoplan commented 10 years ago

Yes it is the same polkit issue. Thanks for explaining! Looking forward that #699 is merged. Until that, I use the gksudo trick.

micber commented 10 years ago

waiting for the merge.. thanks in advance! you do post that here right?

micber commented 10 years ago

Still holding out hope. I am holding off install and using my Chromebook till this is done. Know this is not anyone's main job just staying hopeful;)

dnschneid commented 10 years ago

Tracking this in #457.