On 12/17/12 00:15, Cole Robinson wrote: > There's been a few bugs about an expected error from polkit: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873799 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872166 > > The error is: > > Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available. > > The error means that polkit needs a password, but there is no polkit > agent registered in your session. Polkit agents are the bit of UI that > pop up and actually ask for your password. > > Preface the error with the string 'polkit:' so folks can hopefully > make more sense of it. > --- > daemon/remote.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/daemon/remote.c b/daemon/remote.c > index 41b8ea8..f85dae0 100644 > --- a/daemon/remote.c > +++ b/daemon/remote.c > @@ -2887,9 +2887,10 @@ error: > if (authdismissed) { > virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_CANCELLED, "%s", > _("authentication cancelled by user")); > + } else if (pkout && *pkout) { > + virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "polkit: %s", pkout); This line fails syntax-check: libvirt_unmarked_diagnostics daemon/remote.c:2891: virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "polkit: %s", pkout); It seems a bit unreasonable here, but you need to put the translation macro there. > } else { > - virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "%s", > - pkout && *pkout ? pkout : _("authentication failed")); > + virReportError(VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED, "%s", _("authentication failed")); > } > > VIR_FREE(pkout); > The change makes sense to me and I've also hit the error and had to look where it comes from. ACK once you make it pass syntax-check. Peter