[Bug 1821415] Re: pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment

[Brian Murray]

With the version of apport from groovy-proposed this is now fixed.

bdmurray at clean-groovy-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy python3-apport
python3-apport:
  Installed: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6
  Candidate: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6 500   
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu groovy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu groovy-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bdmurray at clean-groovy-amd64:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth

*** Collecting problem information

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
.....==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
Authenticating as: Ubuntu,,, (bdmurray)
Password: .....
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===

** Tags removed: verification-needed-groovy
** Tags added: verification-done-groovy

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Title:
  pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment

Status in PolicyKit:
  New
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in apport source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in policykit-1 source package in Focal:
  Won't Fix
Status in apport source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in policykit-1 source package in Groovy:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as the root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting that information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not in a non-graphical one.

  [Test Case]
  1) ssh into an Ubuntu Desktop install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 20.10
  2) sudo touch /var/log/plymouth-debug.log
  3) ubuntu at disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth

  *** Collecting problem information

  The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
  application. This might take a few minutes.
  ..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
  Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
  Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu)
  Password: ....
  polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
  ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
  Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

  This incident has been reported.

  With the version of apport from -proposed you will not see the
  "AUTHENTICATION FAILED" error and the plymouth-debug.log file will be
  collected.

  [Where Problems Could Occur]
  It's possible that the spawned pkttyagent process does not get cleaned up properly and could be left running. When testing the SRU we should confirm it is not still running.

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