Arch Linux missing elevated privileges

[Jason1997 0]

Hello,
I've been using Air VPN for quite some time now, on Linux Operating systems, in particular Debian and Arch distributions. This hasn't been a problem, but since a couple of months I am unable to launch the eddie-ui executable. I am using the Arch Community repository's package eddie-ui  and haven't had any problems with it till now. I purged it from my computer multiple times over the last few months. I also just attempted to start eddie-ui on a different device on which I know that eddie-ui used to work, and it won't launch any longer. When I launch eddie-ui over the console under root and/or with gksu, I get the following output from eddie-ui:
 

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. 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Eddie version: 2.18.9 / linux_x64, System: Linux, Name: Arch Linux, Version: 5.9.8-arch1-1, x86_64 GNU/Linux,
Mono/.Net: 6.10.0 (makepkg/5d03a6fe116 Wed 15 Jul 2020 03:00:00 PM -00); Framework: v4.0.30319
. 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Command line arguments (2): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-ui" path.exec="/usr/bin/eddie-ui"
. 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Raise system privileges
The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

This incident has been reported.
F 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (2)
. 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Shutdown in progress
. 2020.11.26 00:00:00 - Shutdown complete

I also tried »sudo gksu -u my_user_name eddie-ui«, and »sudo eddie-ui« and »su; eddie-ui«, and I get the same output...

I've installed stunnel with »pacman -S stunnel«, which didn't help, neither do I know which stunnel isn't a dependency of eddie-ui in the Arch repositories, if it is at all necessary.
I was thinking of doing a clean install of arch with a single root user (hence no sudo users), but I don't think that will solve the problem. I have the hunch that eddie-ui is accessing a service which is running non-root privileges or that reddie-ui is having a problem with keyrings or something...

pls help, thanks









 

[Tech Jedi Alex 1492]

Did you change shells recently? What are the contents of /etc/shells? What is the output of cat $SHELL?
 

10 hours ago, Jason1997 said:

I've installed stunnel with »pacman -S stunnel«, which didn't help, neither do I know which stunnel isn't a dependency of eddie-ui in the Arch repositories, if it is at all necessary.

It's optional. See PKGBUILD:

[…]
optdepends=('stunnel: VPN over SSL' 'openssh: VPN over SSH')
[…]

 

10 hours ago, Jason1997 said:

I was thinking of doing a clean install of arch with a single root user (hence no sudo users), but I don't think that will solve the problem. I have the hunch that eddie-ui is accessing a service which is running non-root privileges or that reddie-ui is having a problem with keyrings or something...

I don't think your hunch is correct. The error message clearly states that the contents of $SHELL are not listed in the permitted login shells config found in /etc/shells. This can happen if you change the default login shell or remove a previously used one, or something like that, without editing /etc/shells. There's actually a manual for all this, see man shells.