Q: Cant unlock Preference Panes Yosemite
Hello everyone,
I recently made a clean install of Yosemite, and after using it some time I noticed that my firewall was off. To turn it on in system preferences, my password is prompted for authorization (the small lock in on the bottom left). After filling in my password, the pane uses the layout for clickable buttons and editable fields, but after a split second, the lock turns back on and everything is locked again. I also noticed this in the other security and privacy tabs. For example a setting under general is locked in 'Apps from App Store only'. I tried to unlock other preferences, and that did work: I can unlock account settings. I don't know how to fix this. Anybody got any ideas? I hope somebody can help me, that pane is a pretty important one.
Kind regards,
Peeterus
Here is the console output for when I click the lock icon and enter my password:
09-11-14 14:08:50,543 com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice[247]: ### AuthorizationCreate returned -1 stack (
0 Security 0x0000000105270916 Security + 26902
1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff91ee7323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff91ee2c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff91eeecbf _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 861
4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff88e28c59 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9
5 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff88de52ef __CFRunLoopRun + 2159
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff88de4838 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
7 HIToolbox 0x00007fff83ebc43f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
8 HIToolbox 0x00007fff83ebc1ba ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431
9 HIToolbox 0x00007fff83ebbffb _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
10 AppKit 0x00007fff90ea9821 _DPSNextEvent + 964
11 AppKit 0x00007fff90ea8fd0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194
12 ViewBridge 0x00007fff8390ce0e -[NSViewServiceApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 70
13 AppKit 0x00007fff90e9cf73 -[NSApplication run] + 594
14 AppKit 0x00007fff90e88424 NSApplicationMain + 1832
15 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff89d3bef2 _xpc_objc_main + 793
16 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff89d3da9d _parse_sysctl_once + 0
17 ViewBridge 0x00007fff8395b165 xpc_connection_handler + 0
18 ViewBridge 0x00007fff8390fff7 NSViewServiceApplicationMain + 1892
19 PreferencePanes 0x00007fff8db7b15d PreferencePaneMain + 168
20 com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice 0x00000001014d4c92 main + 37
21 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8669e5c9 start + 1
22 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
)
OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Posted on Nov 9, 2014 5:22 AM
I just ran into this for a Mac I'm setting up for a friend of mine. I'm guessing that you don't have a login password on your account? In Yosemite you can't unlock the Security and Privacy pane of the settings app if your account has no password (at least in 10.10.1, I haven't tested it in an earlier release). You can still unlock the Users and Groups pane, however. You can test this by going to Security and Privacy and setting a login password in the General tab. Then you can unlock the rest of the pane, make any changes you like, and lock it again. If you then remove your login password you'll no longer be able to unlock the pane. Since Users and Groups works either way I'm assuming that this was intentional to prevent other people from changing your privacy settings if you're away from your password-less machine. Since they can do nearly anything else I'm not sure if there's any point, though.
Posted on Nov 19, 2014 5:59 PM