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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Important (Ebuild)
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None
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This impacts SDDM and Enlightenment.
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sys-auth/polkit-0.120 upgrade to address the recent massive PwnKit CVE
After pulling in the latest sys-auth/polkit-0.120 today and upon system reboot, x11-misc/sddm-0.19.0 was behaving very very odd. After typing in my login password and hitting enter in the SDDM Login X11 Screen, nothing occurred. Usually after entering a password, a user is instantaneously kicked into the configured X11 WM, in this scenario Enlightenment. Instead it took well over 2 minutes to actually launch the Enlightenment X11 session.
After talking with drobbins on Discord, the recommendation was to downgrade polkit to the previous version (0.119-r2) and reboot to reload all polkit dependent services. Fortunately, I was able to successfully do so by using git to reset the local /var/git/meta-repo/kits/gnome-kit and rollback to sys-auth/polkit-0.119-r2. Upon reboot all functionality of SDDM and Enlightenment X11 Session loading was restored to normal and is where I am composing this bug from right now.
Some small history regarding my Funtoo 1.4 install. I have actually had my most recent Funtoo Linux installed since 2018-10-06. Since then I have ran SDDM and Enlightenment quite consistently and through many upgrades without any issues. This is the first major login issues I have experienced with this type of breakage since then.