I'm pretty sure the message notification panel is to blame. I ran with it disabled for several days a few weeks ago and I wasn't plagued by this dialog on a single occasion. Unfortunately, though I can do without the notifications, I can't do without the volume control and for some bizarre reason they are one and the same :/
If a few people could confirm that they see this behaviour disappear when they unload the notification panel, at least someone could start taking a look at the code/config that might be the cause of this annoyance. -- 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/1512002 Title: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data" Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring. This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1512002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
