Please don't bother installing Jaunty - if that's failing in Karmic, that's enough for me. So to sum up, it seems that both PolicyKit and gksu authentications fail. Does a simple "sudo echo test" works? I guess not, but I'd like to be sure. A log that you could also post here is /var/log/auth.log (or at least the last interesting lines of it).
Moving to PAM, as it's a better place than the gnome-system-tools for that bug. I can't understand why this would only affect Xubuntu... ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) => pam (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted + Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted ** Description changed: - Steps to reporduce: - 1) Wait until system does not remember your password + Steps to reproduce: + 1) Wait until PolicyKit/sudo does not remember your password 2) Open System > Users and Groups 3) click on your login name 4) click on Properties 5) set password by hand 6) click OK 7) enter old password - The password has not changed. + + Then try to authenticate by starting an administrative application like + Synaptic or Date & Time. Authentication always fails. OS: Xubuntu 8.10 Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.5.91 WORKAROUND: after changing password, user must log out and log in again. -- Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
