Bug 81784

Summary:	Several XFCE applications appear unresponsive after communicating with a daemon
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e>
Component:	libpolkit	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity:	major
Priority:	high	CC:	wally
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/1347272
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Description Alberto Salvia Novella 2014-07-26 15:53:03 UTC

Several programs have a daemon mode call gtk_init() before fork()ing.

This is unsafe, and when it goes wrong this will typically manifest as the daemon hanging shortly after forking, and appearing to simply do nothing at all.

Please check this bug is not affecting PolicyKit.

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmac 2014-08-26 16:09:30 UTC

Thanks for your report.  The string gtk_init does not appear in polkit codebase.

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