Newcomers are experiencing a bug with similar symptoms. The problem for bug 442263 is that policykit-kde (from kdebase-workspace) was not installed, totally different from the symptoms reported here, where the prompt never showed up even with policykit-kde installed.
-- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to policykit-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
