Bug 334009

Summary: qt_no_glib=1 breaks authentication requests
Product: [Plasma] policykit-kde-agent-1 Reporter: Harald Sitter <sitter>
Component: polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1Assignee: Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Harald Sitter 2014-04-28 11:03:36 UTC 
as seen in bug #331114 when qt_no_glib=1 is globally defined (such that the helper ends up a unix dispatcher rather than a glib one - i.e. also no glib eventloop) it seems as if polkit or the helper is unable to do anything, indefinitely locking applications that are waiting for authentication.

as a general prupose safe guard it might be a good idea to have the helper throw message boxes at the user if it is started without a glib event dispatcher.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2016-02-17 12:44:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 294845 ***