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authorKali Kaneko <kali@leap.se>2013-09-04 18:13:19 +0200
committerKali Kaneko <kali@leap.se>2013-09-05 20:43:24 +0200
commitca1c9e01fecd74150399d5829d3255337be8f10a (patch)
tree64294e13f0d56263c5d73ab7732c8d819dcf7f6e /src/leap/bitmask/services
parentf688bae3beb8b011c643e2d17c62618cfdc89f6c (diff)
Fix invocation of the helper polkit-agent launcher.
Otherwise, we are dumped into a nasty console.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/leap/bitmask/services')
-rw-r--r--src/leap/bitmask/services/eip/vpnlaunchers.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/leap/bitmask/services/eip/vpnlaunchers.py b/src/leap/bitmask/services/eip/vpnlaunchers.py
index 49edc8eb..a50da8b9 100644
--- a/src/leap/bitmask/services/eip/vpnlaunchers.py
+++ b/src/leap/bitmask/services/eip/vpnlaunchers.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ except ImportError:
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
from functools import partial
+from time import sleep
from leap.bitmask.config.leapsettings import LeapSettings
@@ -228,7 +229,11 @@ def _try_to_launch_agent(standalone=False):
env = {
"PYTHONPATH": os.path.abspath('../../../../lib/')}
try:
- subprocess.call(["python", "-m", "leap.bitmask.util.polkit_agent"],
+ # We need to quote the command because subprocess call
+ # will do "sh -c 'foo'", so if we do not quoute it we'll end
+ # up with a invocation to the python interpreter. And that
+ # is bad.
+ subprocess.call(["python -m leap.bitmask.util.polkit_agent"],
shell=True, env=env)
except Exception as exc:
logger.exception(exc)
@@ -316,6 +321,7 @@ class LinuxVPNLauncher(VPNLauncher):
if _is_pkexec_in_system():
if not _is_auth_agent_running():
_try_to_launch_agent(ProviderConfig.standalone)
+ sleep(0.5)
if _is_auth_agent_running():
pkexec_possibilities = which(kls.PKEXEC_BIN)
leap_assert(len(pkexec_possibilities) > 0,