It seems that after a dist-upgrade to 10.10, the gdmsetup dialog, while
can be unlocked via admin password, still has only a reduced number of
options displayed.
** Attachment added: Screenshot of the dialog
#35 might be on to something. When the problem occurred, the default
session was Failsafe Gnome. After changing session to Gnome the
problem ended. (But, if I recall correctly, not immediately after).
Anyway, I do not experience this behavior/problem anymore.
(Re #49: I'll comment in bug 509798
I have since upgraded to 10.4 and the problem still persists here as
well. There is no indication, that I am aware of and is obvious, that I
am in any kind of fail safe mode.
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From an email with #36 and I:
Danny, at the bottom of the login screen, when you login, is the
selected session type Gnome or Gnome failsafe?
It definitely says just Gnome. I see the failsafe option there, but
it isn't selected, 100% sure.
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I have the same problem in both users-admin and gdmsetup, though my
problem may not be related to this bug. I accidentally deleted my
primary user's admin privildges and had to add them back using gpasswd
in a recovery session. This is when the problem started. I also lost all
notification area
Ignore my previous message (#34). My problem was that I was accidentally
logging onto a Gnome Failsafe session rather than a normal Gnome
session. User error.
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Thanks, polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 was in fact disabled for
some reason in startup applications. This has resolved the issue for me.
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I have this problem as well. I am using 9.10 with full updates applied
as of the time of this writing.
I seem to have no problem authenticating any other actions. I have even
tried creating a test account, but that didn't change anything either.
In addition, I tried the old xhost + and sudo su -
Me too. Nothing happens when klicking the Unlock button.
Behaviour:
When gdmsetup is started from the SystemAdministration menu, locally, the
button becomes gray when pressed and resumes normal appearance when released.
When gdmsetup is started from a terminal with ssh X11 forwarding, the
@ Neal and David - Neither of you have polkit-gnome-authentication-
agent-1 running in your session, which is required for authentication to
work. This is most likely because you've unintentionally disabled it in
System - Preferences - Startup Applications.
In any case, this is a local config
Additional info:
In 2010-01-01 I was able to unlock and use gdmsetup, then started from the
SystemAdministration menu. 2010-01-24 I was not.
The same system (Ubuntu 9.10) possibly updated inbetween.
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All programs listed in Startup Applications are enabled, including a
PolicyKit Authentication Agent.
(On a side note. The volume control in the panel has disappeared and the
systray (that used to have at least a network icon) is now empty. Maybe
the gdmsetup problem is a consequence of something
I upgraded my install of 9.04 CrashBang to 9.10, and was unable to
unlock the gdmsetup ui. After reading this thread, I ran gdmsetup W/O
sudo, got an authentication gui, after which I was able to unlock Login
Screen Settings. Thanks -Stuart
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I am experiencing this bug as well in both gdmsetup, and users-admin
after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. The users-admin unlock button is
greyed and says:
Not authorized to make changes
If I run gksu users-admin it works fine...
I think it also might be related to why the Shutdown/Restart is
michael-dance - your issue is different to the issue described by neal-
landry. Your issue seems to be because you're trying to authenticate
from a session which is not on the active console, and the behaviour
there is expected.
The output of ck-list-sessions looks wrong, as your session seems to
Here's the output... Looks like it is running for my session.
$ ps aux | grep polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
nealio6040 0.0 0.0 3040 804 pts/0R+ 11:34 0:00 grep
--color=always polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
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Thanks Chris, I honestly don't know where to begin with any of this...
Since my reboot:
m...@md:~$ ck-list-sessions
Session3:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Michael Dance'
seat = 'Seat5'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
Here's the output of ck-list-sessions...
[501]$ ck-list-sessions
Session2:
unix-user = '115'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/???'
Interesting note:
As a test, I created another non-admin account on the machine with this
problem. I rebooted and logged in as that user. As that user, both
gdmsetup and admin-users work correctly. When I click the Unlock
button I am prompted to authenticate. This problem seems to be only
The Consolekit output there looks normal. Is polkit-gnome-
authentication-agent-1 running in your session? What is the output of
ps aux | grep polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1?
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users-admin is locked out for me as well as gdmsetup. The Click to make
changes button does nothing.
Answers for komputes...
- This is a clean install of 9.10 not an upgrade
- My system is up-to-date. I only update via Update Manager
- Kernel is 2.6.31-16
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Thanks, so this is not a GDM issue then. This will happen if you're
trying to use the tool from elsewhere other than the active local
console. This is usually due to some broken config somewhere rather than
a bug.
From the session that exhibits this issue, please post the output of
Chris, I had this issue with direct access to the computer, but as you
said, this may be a config issue making it think you are accessing it
from somewhere else. If I reproduce the issue I will provide ck-list-
sessions output.
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This bug is affecting me as well on Karmic
[503]$ gdmsetup
** (gdmsetup:3564): DEBUG: init delay=30
** (gdmsetup:3564): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: skipping shell /bin/false
** (gdmsetup:3564): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: Found current seat:
/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1
** (gdmsetup:3564): DEBUG:
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Is this only broken for gdmsetup? Are you able to unlock other tools
(eg, users-admin)?
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = Incomplete
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It only affects gdmsetup from my experience. Although I am not sure what
causes it, something blocks it from opening the
org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set authentication window.
To everyone out there who is not able to unlock users-admin (Tyson, Guido,
Pedro, Neal) please try to answer the
As I mentioned in comment 10, I (for no apparent reason) no have this
problem. Sorry that I cannot be of some help.
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I just installed Karmic on a virtual machine (VMware Payer) and I have
the same problem, I can't unlock the GDM setup window. I want auto-login
on this VM. Any suggestions?
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not really, you seem to be the only one to get this issue and we get
thousand of bugs every week with a small team to work on those, the
issue is in this stack of corner cases affecting a specific config we
don't have ressources to work on quickly
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Well, after one day of doing nothing, this problem disappeared for me. I
was able to authenticate and change the settings.
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I have the same issue:
** (gdmsetup:8327): WARNING **: Error calling
GetValue('daemon/TimedLoginEnable'): Key not found
** (gdmsetup:8327): WARNING **: Error calling
GetValue('daemon/TimedLoginDelay'): Key not found
** (gdmsetup:8327): DEBUG: init delay=30
** (gdmsetup:8327): DEBUG: Failed to
This bug still exists in the released version of Karmic. Is there
anything that I can do to help move this bug fixing along?
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the new gdmsetup dialog is not means to be run using sudo since it's
using policykit for authentification
** Summary changed:
- [Karmic Alpha] Cannot Unlock System Administration Login Screen
+ Cannot Unlock System Administration Login Screen
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Thank you for your bug report. Could you use apport to report bugs or at
least specify the gdm package version you are using? Could you run
gdmsetup on a command line and copy the log there when trying to unlock?
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Changed in: gdm
@seb128 - Are you able to reproduce this bug in Karmic or are you able
to unlock gdm-setup? the package gdm is currently at version
2.27.90-0ubuntu7
I would have liked to use apport to report this bug, but it doesn't seem
to work for me in this case. Firefox doesn't open and all I get in the
ubuntu-bug gdm reported the apport info correctly. See Bug #432698
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