Starting polkit goes fine: tris...@tinygod4:~$ sudo killall polkitd; sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd [sudo] password for tristan: Registering null backend at priority -10 Using authority class PolkitBackendLocalAuthority ** (process:10436): DEBUG: Added authentication agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session10 at name :1.153, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8 ** (process:10436): DEBUG: Added authentication agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 at name :1.46, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8
I tried several permutations of the edits that you suggested, but none of them changed the behaviour of users-admin. Even setting both parameters to "yes" still says that I'm "Not authorized to make changes". When I start users-admin though, my polkitd daemon that I started from the terminal outputs some interesting stuff: tris...@tinygod4:~$ users-admin Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "::1:1.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "::1:1.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "::1:1.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "::1:1.0". (process:10489): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "-1" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `pid' of type `gint' ** (process:10489): DEBUG: system-bus-name::1.218 is inquiring whether unix-process:10498:16170409 is authorized for org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set ** (process:10489): DEBUG: user of caller is unix-user:tristan ** (process:10489): DEBUG: user of subject is unix-user:tristan ** (process:10489): DEBUG: checking whether unix-process:10498:16170409 is authorized for org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set ** (process:10489): DEBUG: 0x992d50 ** (process:10489): DEBUG: subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session10 (local=0 active=0) ** (process:10489): DEBUG: not authorized ** (process:10489): DEBUG: tris...@tinygod4:~$ That seems to make it look like there are two problems: I am not detected as "active", and I am not detected as "local" either. I think I will file a separate bug report against update-manager to cover the groups membership issue that I originally reported, since this report has clearly evolved into tracking the users-admin problem. -- User account lost permissions after Karmic upgrade, breaking all audio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
