check also for a suitable polkit-authentication-agent running

fix #382.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/leap/baseapp/mainwindow.py b/src/leap/baseapp/mainwindow.py
index cd6600b4..0e2f4e1d 100644
--- a/src/leap/baseapp/mainwindow.py
+++ b/src/leap/baseapp/mainwindow.py
@@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ class LeapWindow(QMainWindow):
 
         print('debugmode:%s' % self.debugmode)
 
+        if self.conductor.missing_auth_agent is True:
+            dialog = ErrorDialog()
+            dialog.warningMessage(
+                'We could not find any authentication '
+                'agent in your system.<br/>'
+                'Make sure you have '
+                '<b>polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1</b> '
+                'running and try again.',
+                'error')
+
         if self.conductor.missing_pkexec is True:
             dialog = ErrorDialog()
             dialog.warningMessage(
diff --git a/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py b/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
index 58748761..6b74cb6e 100644
--- a/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
+++ b/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import commands
 import os
 
 from leap.util.fileutil import which
@@ -8,3 +9,9 @@ def is_pkexec_in_system():
     if not pkexec_path:
         return False
     return os.access(pkexec_path, os.X_OK)
+
+
+def is_auth_agent_running():
+    return bool(
+        commands.getoutput(
+            'ps aux | grep polkit-[g]nome-authentication-agent-1'))