This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.96.24.32.13
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software-properties (0.96.24.32.13) bionic; urgency=medium
* softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py:
- Gtk is doing something that takes a lock while processing checkbox
toggled events, the polkit auth dialog can't be displayed in return,
we don't have a proper fix and it might require GTK changes,
meanwhile we want a working interface so workaround with a sleep
(lp: #1727908)
-- Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 08 May 2020 16:47:19
+0200
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727908
Title:
Software & Updates application does not permit changes on the "Other
Software" tab
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in software-properties source package in Bionic:
Fix Released
Bug description:
* Impact
Changes on the 'Other Software tab' sometime fail to ask for credential and
fail to apply as a consequence
* Test Case
- start software-properties-gtk
- got to the 'Other Software Tab'
- try to change the value of a checkbox
The change should prompt for a password and be active
* Regression potential
the change is a small sleep workaround to avoid trying to get the focus while
GTK still has it, outside of a tiny delay in the active it should have no
consequence
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On the "Other Software" tab, I am unable to select "Canonical Partners".
Similarly, the other checkboxes on the "Other Software" can not be clicked.
Clicking on a checkbox has no effect, and a dialog requesting the admin
password is not presented.
However, activating or deactivating checkboxes on other tabs causes an
authorization dialog to be presented to the user.
I experience this bug in an an Xorg session.
sources.list and sources.list.d have the following permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2897 Oct 26 22:35 sources.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 21:29 sources.list.d
All files in sources.list.d have the following permissions as this example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Oct 25 21:50 google-chrome.list
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
$ apt-cache policy software-properties-gtk
software-properties-gtk:
Installed: 0.96.24.17
Candidate: 0.96.24.17
Version table:
*** 0.96.24.17 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.96.24.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 26 22:45:09 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-26 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10.0 2017.10.25 amd64 "Custom Artful Aardvark"
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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