Agree about your thinking Doug; this is gone since a while on my side, so closing that report as it seems to be a some random transitional issue with our rolling game.
** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1-gnome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129828 Title: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3194): GLib-WARNING **: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). Status in “policykit-1-gnome” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: RR i386 logged as gnome-classic (fallback) (genuine installation) I've seen that error logged after having used synaptic to check for updates, and then applied the upgrades proposed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: policykit-1-gnome 0.105-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.13-generic 3.8.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Feb 19 07:04:07 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: policykit-1-gnome UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1129828/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp