assertion failure: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Binary package hint: policykit-1-gnome

Each time I report a bug with ubuntu-bug, it extracts messages from my .xsession-errors file and among those is the following error message:

 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3501): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

I am using KDE4 with some GNOME software if that matters.

In order to weed out noise in bug reports, could someone please fix this assertion ?

BTW, a critical assertion failure in a security sensitive piece of software is probably something that needs to be fixed anyway.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 12 11:31:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: policykit-1-gnome 0.94-1+1git.230873 [modified: usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic-pae
SourcePackage: policykit-1-gnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3501): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3528): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed

[Matthias Clasen (mclasen)]

*** Bug 24175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

Binary package hint: policykit-1-gnome

Each time I report a bug with ubuntu-bug, it extracts messages from my .xsession-errors file and among those is the following error message:

 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3501): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

I am using KDE4 with some GNOME software if that matters.

In order to weed out noise in bug reports, could someone please fix this assertion ?

BTW, a critical assertion failure in a security sensitive piece of software is probably something that needs to be fixed anyway.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 12 11:31:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: policykit-1-gnome 0.94-1+1git.230873 [modified: usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic-pae
SourcePackage: policykit-1-gnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3501): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3528): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed

[Zeuthen (zeuthen)]

This is all generated code right? If so, it's an eggdbus bug...

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

I see too, in combination with a warning:

$ ./polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:7814): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:7814): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

policykit-1-gnome:
  Installed: 0.96-2
  Candidate: 0.96-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.96-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

Note that I'm seeing the same in Lucid with a pure Gnome desktop.

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

In fact, I see two consecutive lines in ~/.xsession-errors:

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3370): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3370): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[dino99 (9d9)]

here are the same warnings with Lucid32 B1 and gnome (nothing from kde)

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This bug still exists in this version:

Package: policykit-1-gnome
Version: 0.96-2ubuntu2

in a pure GNOME system and libraries updated as of now.

[Marco Cimmino (cimmo)]

I have the same issue visiting www.pollycoke.org using Firefox 3.5.8 under Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 the crash is 100% reproducible.

[Marco Cimmino (cimmo)]

Sorry I wrote something that might be totally unrelated, was filing a bug with apport on a Firefox crash :(

[tekstr1der (tekstr1der)]

Seeing this on up-to-date lucid Beta 2 as well.

[Sharmanchris2 (sharmanchris2)]

Created an attachment (id=35379)
xsession error log

I see these messages on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx final release.
I've just installed it, with a /home partition inherited from Ubuntu 9.10.

I also don't get a proper panel on boot/autologin:
I get a light grey bar top left, about the normal depth, 40% width, nothing on it.
To workaround, I right click where the panel ought to be, select properties, select the background tab, and click none, or solid colour. The panel then appears with applications, places, system etc.
Without this step I can do nothing.
I'm presuming it's related to these errors - can anyone confirm that, or should I be logging a separate bug?

Thanks
Chris

[Chris Sharman (sharman-chris)]

I see this on Lucid final release.
I also don't get a proper panel on boot/autologin:
I get a light grey bar top left, about the normal depth, 40% width, nothing on it.
To workaround, I right click where the panel ought to be, select properties, select the background tab, and click none, or solid colour. The panel then appears with applications, places, system etc.
Without this step I can do nothing.
I'm presuming it's related to these errors - can anyone confirm that, or should I be logging a separate bug?

Thanks
Chris

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

@Chris
You should file a separate bug report for your issues, as they are unrelated to these pretty harmless warnings.

[Berni (jc4you)]

Today I got this:

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1249): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1249): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
** Message: couldn't communicate with already running daemon: 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.
** Message: couldn't initialize running daemon

I guess this agent is initiated twice somewhere.

[Berni (jc4you)]

It's already upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613230

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

@Berni
The bug you are experiencing is bug 445303 and not this one. You get the g_once_init_leave warning because pretty much everyone gets it, but that is not related to any other issues you may experience.

[Chris Sharman (sharman-chris)]

Thanks Gabe.
Filed as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/574247

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

Gnome bug #613230 is not the upstream bug for the original report.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Created an attachment (id=36368)
backtrace of CRITICAL message

Attaching backtraces from <https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/449378>. Hope it helps.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Created an attachment (id=36369)
backtrace of WARNING message

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Thankfully our Debian friends have already analyzed this. Bug linked.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

This does not actually appear to be a bug in -gnome, it's a bug in polickykit-1. (See fd.o bug.)

[Zeuthen (zeuthen)]

With the port to gdbus, this is no longer a problem.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

I also see this bug in maverick with KDE 4.5.2. My ~/.xsession-errors file contains this line:

(<unknown>:5265): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

and process 5265 is:

$ ps aux | grep 5265
bonnaud 5265 0.0 0.4 98628 19784 ? Sl 17:36 0:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 -session 10dbdee967000127083187200000058120018_1287588980_249112

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Reassigning to policykit-1 per upstream bug. (Should have done this earlier.)

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

I do not see this bug any longer with the KDE 4.6 backport in maverick.

[dinexi (im-dinexi)]

In Maverick amd64 I see it again:

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:8733): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:8733): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

dinexi: the fix is not released in Maverick. It will be in Natty. Thanks.

[demilord (demilord)]

Why dont you backport the polkit fixes to maverick.. its not a huge change as far as I can see..

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

demilord: please see <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>.

[Mario Capurso (m-capurso)]

This bug affects Lucid Lynx today with all updates received, and I think 10.04 LTS stands for LONG TERM SUPPORT.
Really I do not see support for 10.04 LTS. Bugs are corrected in new versions but not in LTS. Is is annoying.