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Bug 1800468 - missing polkit dependency: Failed to check for authentication: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Summary: missing polkit dependency: Failed to check for authentication: GDBus.Error:or...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PackageKit
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1808677
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-02-07 07:48 UTC by Martin Pitt
Modified: 2021-05-20 11:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 18:33:46 UTC
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Description Martin Pitt 2020-02-07 07:48:11 UTC 
Description of problem: PackageKit seems to query polkit even if the caller is root, but does not depend on polkit. This leads to failures from e. g. cockpit-packagekit when it tries to do package operations.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

PackageKit-1.1.12-11.fc31.x86_64

How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install PackageKit, but remove (or not install) polkit
2. sudo pkcon refresh

Actual results: Fails with

Fatal error: Failed to check for authentication: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable

(it's trying to talk to polkit)

Expected results: Operation works as root. It's acceptable to fail as user and not ask for auth if polkit is not installed.
Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 16:19:08 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 31 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 31 on 2020-11-24.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '31'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 18:33:46 UTC 
Fedora 31 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-11-24. Fedora 31 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
Comment 3 Martin Pitt 2020-11-25 05:22:42 UTC 
I just ran the reproducer on current Fedora 33, it's still an issue.
Comment 4 Martin Pitt 2021-05-20 11:13:57 UTC 
This *still* breaks people's systems..
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