I proposed a fix upstream [1]. A workaround can be added to apport to workaroud this while polkit is fixed upstream: we could for example spawn pkttyagent manually (a similar approach is used by systemd).
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/28 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1821415 Title: pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment Status in PolicyKit: New Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as the root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting that information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not in a non-graphical one. ubuntu@disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth *** Collecting problem information The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the application. This might take a few minutes. ..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info === Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu) Password: .... polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. Subsequently, bug reports from servers will contain less information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/policykit-1/+bug/1821415/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
