Authentication window becomes unresponsive

[Rob Speer]

Binary package hint: policykit-1-gnome

Sometimes when I try to authenticate -- for example, this just happened to me when trying to unlock the Login Screen configuration -- after I type my password and hit ENTER, the password box disappears and nothing else happens.

After that point, clicking "Authenticate" does nothing. Clicking "Cancel" does nothing. The window does still respond to input in general, as I can switch the user, or expand or collapse the details.

Oddly enough, if I click the window close button, I end up back in the screen I was trying to unlock, and it's successfully unlocked.

This doesn't happen every time, but by now it has happened to me more than once.

A screenshot is attached, showing the state of the window after I have typed my password and hit ENTER.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 10 03:14:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: policykit-1-gnome 0.94-1+1git.230873
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: policykit-1-gnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2032): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2032): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2133): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2129): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2133): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

[Bryan Donlan (bdonlan)]

I can confirm this happens as well (with an internal disk mount attempt).

[Bryan Donlan (bdonlan)]

Also: Restarting /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 seems to workaround the problem.