Comment 79 for bug 445303

(In reply to Simon McVittie from comment #8)
> In the absence of a recent polkit release, I'm looking into updating Debian
> experimental's polkit (which currently includes this patch) to current git
> master.
>
> This looks suspiciously like Bug #60847. James, does the patch that was
> merged for that bug look OK? It stops using the child watch at all, and only
> reads stdout, which seems a more correct solution to this.

Hi,

That does sound rather similar, yes, though the symptoms in the arch bug sound a bit different.

If it's not using the child watch then the problem may well be gone. Unfortunately I can't remember the specifics of a race condition from over 4 years ago to say for sure whether it will be handled by the other patch.

Thanks,

James