commit ca3a0c47aef444bcd5e20a95fd7f4ab97484f72e
Author: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Date: Wed Aug 5 22:50:51 2026 +0200
update changelog
commit 5080d34497c3a6f2429119c6b573d5a17a11d5a0
Author: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Date: Wed Aug 5 21:28:44 2026 +0200
d/control: add the missing accountsservice dependency to cinnamon
The polkit authentication agent (js/ui/polkitAuthenticationAgent.js),
the user@ and menu@ applets and the user settings modules all talk to
the org.freedesktop.Accounts D-Bus service, but only
gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 was pulled in, which ships just the typelib
and the client library.
Without the accounts daemon the UserManager is still created, but every
user object stays unloaded, so the authentication dialog finds no
administrator and is never shown: pkexec just hangs in the background
with no way to authenticate.
The dependency belongs here and not to cinnamon-control-center: that
package no longer uses AccountsService, so it was correctly dropped from
its dependencies.
Closes: #1143635
Thanks: Rolf Heinrichs for the report and the testing, and Michael Biebl
for the analysis
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
Among the 8 debian patches available in version 6.6.9-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/c/cinnamon.png){kind=link}