[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#582305: upower: can't obtain suspend/hibernate authorization

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: upower
Version: 0.9.4-1
Severity: normal

Hey,

I'm not 100% sure it's a bug in upower, but I'm still puzzled.

I'm testing xfce4-power-manager 0.9.98, which uses
upower/policykit/consolekit/…

Running xfpm --dump replies:

corsac at hidalgo: xfce4-power-manager --dump
---------------------------------------------------
       Xfce power manager version 0.9.98
       With HAL support
       With policykit support
       With network manager support
       With DPMS support
       ---------------------------------------------------
       Can suspend: True
       Can hibernate: False
       Can spin down hard disks: True
       Authorized to suspend: False
       Authorized to hibernate: False
       Authorized to shutdown: True
       Authorized to spin down hard disks: False
       Has brightness panel: True
       Has power button: True
       Has hibernate button: True
       Has sleep button: True
       Has LID: True

and the logs from debug xfpm give:

TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:407] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend is authorized=FALSE
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:407] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate is authorized=FALSE
TRACE[xfpm-polkit.c:407] xfpm_polkit_check_auth_intern(): Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-set-spindown is authorized=FALSE

polkit-auth returns nothing (but I'm told it's normal, not sure), when I
try to obtain authorization from polickit, I get:

corsac at hidalgo: POLKIT_AUTH_FORCE_TEXT=1 polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.upower.suspend.
polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.upower.suspend.

Looking at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy,
local users should get the “suspend” authorization automatically, so I'm
not sure what is the problem. Do you have any clue what's not working
there and a way to debug?

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages upower depends on:
ii  dbus                         1.2.24-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-8    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.86-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.1-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               154-1       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.96-2      PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libupower-glib1              0.9.4-1     abstraction for power management -
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-14 userspace USB programming library
ii  udev                         154-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages upower recommends:
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-1    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-2     framework for managing administrat

upower suggests no packages.

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