Authentication prompt show up every time (Again)

[tedliosu]

Describe the bug (Related to #138) Authentication prompt show up every time when request and exit gamemode, and sometimes even repeatedly shows up in the middle of a game. Super user is needed to run /usr/libexec/cpugovctl, and CPU governor doesn't switch from performance back to ondemand unless authenticated.

To Reproduce Steps used to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch gamemode with any game
2. Authentication prompt show up (sometimes multiple times in the middle of a game, and it won't give me enough time to punch in my password either)
3. Exit the game
4. Authentication prompt shows up again

Expected behavior Gamemode shouldn't prompt for authentication, or if it must be done, it should prompt once only, not every time

System Info (please complete the following information):

• OS and version: Ubuntu 20.04.05
• GameMode Version: 1.7 HEAD 4934191b1928ef695c3e8af21e75781f8591745f

Additional context No that is all

[tedliosu]

Btw I downgraded to version 1.5.1 from the Ubuntu apt repos, and applied the same tweaked policykit config files to the program, and the issue went away; what's wrong with the latest version of gamemode that may be causing this authentication issue?

[webodan]

this happens to me also. in my case even after editing /etc/polkit-default-privs.standard then rebooting it still asks for root password. can't figure out why.

edit: actually i found a fix, /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gamemode.rules was the culprit, in my system it wanted me to add my user to the gamemode group so that it would stop asking for root. once i deleted that file it went away, but using the repo version like @tedliosu is doing

[tedliosu]

this happens to me also. in my case even after editing /etc/polkit-default-privs.standard then rebooting it still asks for root password. can't figure out why.

edit: actually i found a fix, /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gamemode.rules was the culprit, in my system it wanted me to add my user to the gamemode group so that it would stop asking for root. once i deleted that file it went away, but using the repo version like @tedliosu is doing

Dang I see; will try that when I get the chance :eyes:

[tedliosu]

Actually, I just tried reproducing the issue again today, and not only could I not find the /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gamemode.rules file that @webodan had mentioned, but I couldn't get the authentication prompt to constantly appear like it did before when I initially created this issue. In both cases (today and when I first created this issue), I changed the <allow_any> and <allow_inactive> tags within the installed com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy file from "no" to "yes", so that definitely couldn't have be related to this issue. I think it might be that I forgot to checkout the 1.7 tag when I initially installed from the repo when I created this issue initially, hence leading to me running into a potential bug that had been introduced after the latest official release...

Anyway I am closing this issue for now as there appears to be at least a workaround for those who are facing the same issue, and especially as I have been unable to reproduce this issue.