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policykit-1 package

Incorrect permissions on polkit-agent-helper-1

Bug #1767981 reported by Laura Czajkowski on 2018-04-30

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	policykit-1 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04, I ran
czajkowski@penny:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
czajkowski@penny:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
czajkowski@penny:~$ sudo apt install update-manager-core

Upgrade then started and about 4 mins the Error 1 image appeared, Incorrect permissions on /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(needs to be setuid root)

a few mins later the login appeared for me to enter my password, it would not recognise my password Error 2.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 30 10:21:49 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-20 (1226 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-29 (0 days ago)

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote on 2018-04-30:

#1

error1.jpg Edit (392.4 KiB, image/jpeg)
CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (70.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog.txt Edit (128.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz Edit (1016.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt Edit (179.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt Edit (562.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt Edit (85.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote on 2018-04-30:

#2

error2.jpg Edit (137.4 KiB, image/jpeg)

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2018-04-30

tags:

added: artful2bionic

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2018-04-30:

#3

I'm sorry it is not clear to me but when did you see the error message? Was it during the release upgrade process, after you ran "do-release-upgrade" or was it when you did some apt operations after the upgrade completed successfully?

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote on 2018-04-30:

#4

Hi Brian

sorry I wasn't clearer, it happened as soon after the upgrade gui was launched and then the dialogue box appeared over the text box that was updating in the background

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2018-05-01:

#5

I don't believe this has anything to do with the release upgrader, it just happened to be the process which caused you to notice that the permissions were incorrect.

affects:	ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) → policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
Changed in policykit-1 (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2018-05-01

summary:

- Incorrect permissions on upgrade found for login
+ Incorrect permissions on polkit-agent-helper-1

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