polkitd segfaulted in libpolkit-backend due to an empty cmdline

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • polkitd crashed with signal 11 and reported the following in /var/log/messages:

    kernel: polkitd[2965]: segfault at 1c40000 ip 000000330121c9f4 sp 00007fff3603a3d0 error 4 in libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0[3301200000+3e000]

  • The polkit daemon crashed and abrt reported:

    [abrt] polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1: Process /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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