ANSWERED Archlinux: Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required)

[lpav 2]

Hello

I have installed all AUR packages: eddie-cli, eddie-ui, eddie-ui-git
They all fail to start with:
 

$ sudo eddie-cli
[sudo] password for iarch: 
. 2022.02.28 23:28:15 - Eddie version: 2.20.0 / linux_x64, System: Linux, Name: Arch Linux \r (\l), Version: Linux myhostname 5.16.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:18:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux, Mono/.Net: 6.12.0 (makepkg/c621c35ffa0 Thu Jun 17 02:48:02 PM -03 2021); Framework: v4.0.30319
. 2022.02.28 23:28:15 - Command line arguments (2): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-cli" path.exec="/usr/bin/eddie-cli"
. 2022.02.28 23:28:15 - Raise system privileges
F 2022.02.28 23:28:16 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (Elevated communication closed)
. 2022.02.28 23:28:16 - Shutdown in progress
. 2022.02.28 23:28:16 - Shutdown complete


$ sudo eddie-ui
...
. 2022.02.28 23:28:57 - Command line arguments (3): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-ui" path.exec="/usr/bin/eddie-ui" v="True"
. 2022.02.28 23:28:57 - Raise system privileges
F 2022.02.28 23:28:59 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (Elevated communication closed)
. 2022.02.28 23:29:03 - Shutdown in progress
. 2022.02.28 23:29:03 - Shutdown complete

I have tried:

sudo ln -s ~/.config/eddie/default.profile /usr/lib/eddie-ui/my_profile.profile

sudo eddie-ui -cli profile=my_profile

without luck, same error.

Any thoughts how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

Don't use sudo. Let Eddie ask itself for permissions.
… no, wait. I can't launch Eddie myself anymore. Same message. Interesting.

[Clodo 176]

Focus only on eddie-ui for now.
Yes, must be launched without "sudo".
I just simply installed eddie-ui-git from AUR on an Arch Manjaro 21, and start with "eddie-ui" from terminal.
Please report any information that can be useful to reproduce the issue, thanks

[lpav 2]

Hello,

Thanks for the replies.

sudo or not the error is the same.

OS: Arch Linux; Build ID: rolling
kernel: 5.16.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:18:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download and build `eddie-ui-git`:

$ auracle download eddie-ui-git
clone complete: /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git

$ cd /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git

$ makepkg -csi
==> Making package: eddie-ui-git 2.21.4-1 (Wed 02 Mar 2022 06:13:41 PM EET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning Eddie git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/Eddie'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 14700, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1375/1375), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (810/810), done.
remote: Total 14700 (delta 798), reused 904 (delta 539), pack-reused 13325
Receiving objects: 100% (14700/14700), 486.17 MiB | 5.50 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10076/10076), done.
==> Validating source files with sha1sums...
    Eddie ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of Eddie git repo...
Cloning into 'Eddie'...
done.
Updating files: 100% (1923/1923), done.
==> Starting build()...

>>>> xbuild tool is deprecated and will be removed in future updates, use msbuild instead <<<<

XBuild Engine Version 14.0
Mono, Version 6.12.0.0
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Various Mono authors
		Configuration: Release Platform: x64
	Configuration: Release Platform: x64
Configuration: Release Platform: x64
Configuration: Release Platform: x64
Configuration: Release Platform: x64
CMake Warning:
  No source or binary directory provided.  Both will be assumed to be the
  same as the current working directory, but note that this warning will
  become a fatal error in future CMake releases.


CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:2 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
  CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
  CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "1.8.0") 
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Checking for one of the modules 'gtk+-2.0'
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src/UI.GTK.Linux.Tray
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/eddie_tray.dir/src/main.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkobject.h:37,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkwidget.h:36,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkcontainer.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkbin.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkwindow.h:36,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkdialog.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaboutdialog.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:33,
                 from /usr/include/libappindicator-0.1/libappindicator/app-indicator.h:33,
                 from /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src/UI.GTK.Linux.Tray/src/main.cpp:22:
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtktypeutils.h:236:64: warning: ‘GTypeDebugFlags’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  236 | void            gtk_type_init   (GTypeDebugFlags    debug_flags);
      |                                                                ^
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobject.h:24,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:29,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:22,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gioenums.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:26,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/libappindicator-0.1/libappindicator/app-indicator.h:33,
                 from /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src/UI.GTK.Linux.Tray/src/main.cpp:22:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:704:3: note: declared here
  704 | } GTypeDebugFlags GLIB_DEPRECATED_TYPE_IN_2_36;
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtktoolitem.h:31,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtktoolbutton.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkmenutoolbutton.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:126,
                 from /usr/include/libappindicator-0.1/libappindicator/app-indicator.h:33,
                 from /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src/UI.GTK.Linux.Tray/src/main.cpp:22:
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtktooltips.h:73:12: warning: ‘GTimeVal’ is deprecated: Use 'GDateTime' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
   73 |   GTimeVal last_popdown;
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gbinding.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:22,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gioenums.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:26,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/libappindicator-0.1/libappindicator/app-indicator.h:33,
                 from /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src/UI.GTK.Linux.Tray/src/main.cpp:22:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:545:26: note: declared here
  545 | typedef struct _GTimeVal GTimeVal GLIB_DEPRECATED_TYPE_IN_2_62_FOR(GDateTime);
      |                          ^~~~~~~~
[100%] Linking CXX executable eddie_tray
[100%] Built target eddie_tray
BasePath: /home/myuser/pks/eddie-ui-git/src/Eddie/src
TargetDir: src/App.Forms.Linux/bin/x64/Release/
Project: ui
Arch: x64
Config: Release
Mode: static
Done
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 53806    0 53806    0     0  87301      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 87205
  -> Installing desktop file...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir
usr/lib/eddie-ui/Lib.Forms.Skin.dll
usr/lib/eddie-ui/Lib.Platform.Linux.dll
usr/lib/eddie-ui/Lib.Core.dll
usr/lib/eddie-ui/eddie-cli-elevated
usr/lib/eddie-ui/Lib.Forms.dll
usr/lib/eddie-ui/eddie-ui.exe
==> Creating package "eddie-ui-git"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Adding install file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: eddie-ui-git 2.21.4-1 (Wed 02 Mar 2022 06:15:43 PM EET)
==> Installing package eddie-ui-git with pacman -U...
[sudo] password for myuser: 
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) eddie-ui-git-2.21.4-1

Total Installed Size:  6.61 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                                                                           [##############################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                                                                         [##############################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                                                                              [##############################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                                                                        [##############################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                                                                                                      [##############################################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing eddie-ui-git                                                                                                                            [##############################################################################################] 100%
==> Updating desktop MIME database...
Optional dependencies for eddie-ui-git
    stunnel: VPN over SSL
    openssh: VPN over SSH [installed]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
==> Cleaning up...

2. Run

$ eddie-ui 
. 2022.03.02 18:55:18 - Eddie version: 2.21.4beta / linux_x64, System: Linux, Name: Arch Linux, Version: Linux myhostname 5.16.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:18:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux, Mono/.Net: 6.12.0 (makepkg/c621c35ffa0 Thu Jun 17 02:48:02 PM -03 2021); Framework: v4.0.30319
. 2022.03.02 18:55:18 - Command line arguments (2): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-ui" path.exec="/usr/bin/eddie-ui"
. 2022.03.02 18:55:18 - Raise system privileges
F 2022.03.02 18:55:22 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (Elevated communication closed)
. 2022.03.02 18:55:24 - Shutdown in progress
. 2022.03.02 18:55:24 - Shutdown complete

Cant locate any logs besides the stdout, so I am not sure what else to include:
 

$ ps aux|grep -i openvpnv                                                                                                                                                                                                              
myuser     139634  0.0  0.0   6992  2412 pts/2    S+   19:02   0:00 grep --color -i openvpnv                                                                                                                                                                   


$ openvpn --version
OpenVPN 2.5.5 [git:makepkg/869f194c23ae93c4+] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Dec 15 2021
library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1m  14 Dec 2021, LZO 2.10
Originally developed by James Yonan
Copyright (C) 2002-2021 OpenVPN Inc <sales@openvpn.net>
Compile time defines: 

                                                                      
$ ls -la /usr/lib/eddie-ui/
total 6324
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 Mar  2 18:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 267 root root  180224 Mar  2 14:43 ..
-rw-------   1 root root    1195 Mar  1 00:29 default.profile
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 2389312 Mar  2 18:13 eddie-cli-elevated
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 1424248 Mar  2 18:13 eddie-tray
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   61952 Mar  2 18:13 eddie-ui.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  333824 Mar  2 18:13 Lib.Core.dll
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1884672 Mar  2 18:13 Lib.Forms.dll
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  105472 Mar  2 18:13 Lib.Forms.Skin.dll
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   14368 Mar  2 18:13 libLib.Platform.Linux.Native.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   52224 Mar  2 18:13 Lib.Platform.Linux.dll
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      41 Feb 28 23:32 my_profile.profile -> /home/myuser/.config/eddie/default.profile


$ ls -la /usr/share/eddie-ui/
total 512
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar  2 19:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 306 root root  12288 Mar  2 19:15 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 261889 Feb 28 23:18 cacert.pem
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  52810 Feb 28 23:18 icon_gray.png
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  53214 Feb 28 23:18 icon.png
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  28490 Feb 28 23:18 iso-3166.json
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar  2 19:15 lang
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  52810 Feb 28 23:18 tray_gray.png
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  53214 Feb 28 23:18 tray.png


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
$ route -n                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Kernel IP routing table                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface                                                                                                                                                                                 
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eno2                                                                                                                                                                                  
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eno2                                                                                                                                                                                  
10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 virbr1                                                                                                                                                                                
172.1.1.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet8                                                                                                                                                                                
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 eno2                                                                                                                                                                                  
192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    100    0        0 eno2                                                                                                                                                                                  
192.168.122.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 virbr0                                                                                                                                                                                
192.168.170.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet1     


$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp0s31f6
    inet 192.168.1.5/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eno2
       valid_lft 70045sec preferred_lft 70045sec
    inet6 2a02:587:3223:98f5:2bff:65da:f195:4c16/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute 
       valid_lft 604788sec preferred_lft 86388sec
    inet6 2a02:587:3223:98f5:9ae7:43ff:fe99:94e8/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute 
       valid_lft 604786sec preferred_lft 86386sec
    inet6 fe80::d1c4:cf3b:303f:f791/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 24:41:8c:ab:a6:ad
    altname wlp0s20f3
4: vmnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.170.1/24 brd 192.168.170.255 scope global vmnet1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: vmnet8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 172.1.1.1/24 brd 172.1.1.255 scope global vmnet8
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: virbr2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: virbr1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:06 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.2.2/24 brd 10.0.2.255 scope global virbr1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
9: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:07 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
10: vboxnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Edited ... by lpav

[AirManizno 1]

Just here to say I'm having the same issue since some updates yesterday (running EndeavourOS/Arch). Tried the uninstalling, reinstalling, both the stable and beta versions. No luck so far. Will be interesting to see how this progresses

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

So, I edited the PKGBUILD to compile everything in debug mode, which included simply replacing all occurences of "Release" with "Debug". Started Eddie with the shell command given in /usr/bin/eddie-ui with an addition from the docs and got two additional lines of output, two:

$ mono --debug /usr/lib/eddie-ui/eddie-ui.exe --path.resources=/usr/share/eddie-ui --path.exec="/usr/lib/eddie-ui" "$@"
. 2022.03.04 22:40:28 - Eddie version: 2.21.4beta / linux_x64, System: Linux, Name: Arch Linux, Version: Linux 5.16.11-zen1-2-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:17:33 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux,
Mono/.Net: 6.12.0 (makepkg/c621c35ffa0 Thu Jun 17 02:48:02 PM -03 2021); Framework: v4.0.30319
. 2022.03.04 22:40:28 - Command line arguments (3): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-ui" path.exec="/usr/lib/eddie-ui" clr="--color=auto"
. 2022.03.04 22:40:28 - Raise system privileges
Elevated Debug: Waiting for client
Elevated Debug: Command:session-key
F 2022.03.04 22:40:32 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (Elevated communication closed)
. 2022.03.04 22:40:33 - Shutdown in progress
. 2022.03.04 22:40:33 - Shutdown complete

I hope it helps!™

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

Fixed in 2.21.5 beta.

[AirManizno 1]

3 hours ago, OpenSourcerer said:

Fixed in 2.21.5 beta.

Cheers buddy! I'll give that a go.

The convenience of Eddie has made me VPN-lazy. I literally have no idea how to connect to airvpn servers any other way sadly. Will have to learn how to (I have a little openmediavault server I'd like to have connect to a vpn, perhaps via qBittorrent, overnights).

[lpav 2]

Resolved for me as well.
Thank you!

[AirManizno 1]

Has worked out for me. Also learned how to install .tar.zst files which is a bonus. From the arch-wiki article titled 'Offline installation of packages', if anyone is interested.
Cheers all