PolicyKit1-Qt (polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1) crash on shutdown

[Scott Kitterman]

This is from the upstream bug. Primarily filing this bug for SRU tracking purposes.

Application: polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 (0.97.1)
KDE Platform Version: 4.5.80 (4.6 Beta1)
Qt Version: 4.7.1
Operating System: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic x86_64
Distribution: Ubuntu natty (development branch)

-- Information about the crash:
- What I was doing when the application crashed:

i had this crash on logout when i'm doing a reboot of my system

TEST CASE: If you have been experiencing this problem, install the updated packages and verify it doesn't happen anymore.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Upstream bug is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258916 - It has hundreds of comments, so getting this fixed will have a visible impact on users.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Fixed in precise.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Scott, or anyone else affected,

Accepted polkit-qt-1 into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

I have it installed and everything seems to be working. Although it is hard to say (for me), as the crashes did/do occurs always during shutdown...

[Nikola Snele (n-schnelle)]

I can confirm it's working. No more crashes.

[Ivo Anjo (knuckles)]

I helped test this fix on BKO, and can also confirm that the latest packages fix the issue.
I tested by installing -> doing testcase -> no crash, and reverting back -> doing testcase -> crash, on two different machines.

My testcase is:
I used apper to install xbill (polkit asks for password) and then
immediately remove it (asks for password again).
I then closed apper, and repeated it.
So basically each test was open apper -> install xbill -> remove xbill -> close
apper -> open apper -> install xbill -> remove xbill -> close apper.
And then logout and the old polkit crashes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package polkit-qt-1 - 0.99.0-3ubuntu0.1

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polkit-qt-1 (0.99.0-3ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add debian/patches/fix_exit_crash.diff to resolve high frequency
    crash on exit issues (LP: #904245)
 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:03:42 -0500