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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to Simon McVittie from comment #8)
> In the absence of a recent polkit release, I'm looking into updating Debian
> experimental's polkit (which currently includes this patch) to current git
> master.
> 
> This looks suspiciously like Bug #60847. James, does the patch that was
> merged for that bug look OK? It stops using the child watch at all, and only
> reads stdout, which seems a more correct solution to this.

Hi,

That does sound rather similar, yes, though the symptoms in the arch bug
sound a bit different.

If it's not using the child watch then the problem may well be gone.
Unfortunately I can't remember the specifics of a race condition from
over 4 years ago to say for sure whether it will be handled by the other
patch.

Thanks,

James

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445303

Title:
  policykit-1 password dialog sometimes hangs

Status in PolicyKit:
  Invalid
Status in PolicyKit GNOME component:
  Unknown
Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in aptdaemon source package in Karmic:
  Invalid
Status in policykit source package in Karmic:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome source package in Karmic:
  Won't Fix
Status in update-manager source package in Karmic:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Using current karmic versions after entering the polkit password for
  org.debian.apt-upgrade-packages and pressing enter the dialog for
  authentification didn't close, button to cancel or validate were not
  responsive, after a minute or so the dialog closed and update-manager
  displayed an error saying there was probably an issue with aptdaemon
  and apport triggered

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 579, in msg_reply_handler
      *message.get_args_list()))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/gtkwidgets.py", line 468, in _on_error
      raise error
  DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

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