Re: [e-users] polkit problem
Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:10:42 -0500 Conrad Knight <[email protected]> said: > I'm having a problem with E's polkit module. I was running > pamac-manager and it asked for authentication. The password dialog box > popped up, i entered my password, but then got an authentication > failure error message. > > There's some output in .e-log.log that looks relevant: > > AUTH: POLKIT: > [3-85675816164cbd241ec6e8b4f92b0e4f-3-a4ac0b07e510e40440dbf83b5e4bcfb8] AUTH: > UID: [1000] AUTH: readpass... > AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL > ================================================================= > ==99121==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address > 0x000000000000 (pc 0x000000000000 bp 0x7fffdece1aa0 sp 0x7fffd > ece1228 T0) > ==99121==Hint: pc points to the zero page. > ==99121==The signal is caused by a READ memory access. > ==99121==Hint: address points to the zero page. > #0 0x0 (<unknown module>) > #1 0x7fb5b6ceb74b (/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so+0x574b) > > AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. > SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV (<unknown module>) > ==99121==ABORTING > > If i unload the polkit module and manually start > polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 instead, and then try again, > everything works: i get a gnome password dialog box instead of an E > one, i enter my password, and pamac starts its update process. > > I don't know when this problem may have started, as i rarely use > pamac. Hmm, it just occurred to me that gparted also asks for > authentication with polkit. Tried running that, and the same thing > happens. After entering my password, i get an E error dialog telling > me "Enlightenment was unable to run the application...". And there's > another, similar message in .e-log.log. > > Any ideas what might be wrong? something seems to be jumping to the NULL address - some function ptr is null maybe? but this is INSIDE the pam module. (sorry accidentally sent too early). now i don't have any trace beyond that pam module. i don't know how it's ending up in this pam module. i don't even know for sure WHAT is ending up there. what process? > Thanks, > -Conrad. > > -- > Shine like thunder > Cry like rain > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected]