I got linked here from another bug marked as a duplicate of this one. I don't know of a better place to report this--if there is, please let me know...
I've been running Kubuntu Lucid since Beta 1 and I think in that distribution policykit-1-kde wasn't ready yet ... it came in some later update. I've installed and re-installed it and the base policykit-1 package and I experience the same results. (In fact, I did a purge on policykit-1-kde, which removed several hundred packages including kde- workspace-bin. I immediately re-installed the affected packages and rebooted--so far so good. Still experiencing the same behavior with respect to kpackagekit.) Symptoms are this: - policykit-1 is installed, as are policykit-1-kde and policykit-1-gnome - polkitd is running - polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 is running - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gnome-org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.AuthenticationAgent.service does not exist - /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists - /etc/xdg/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists - ~/.config/autostart/ is empty - polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update outputs the following and immediate returns with exit status 1: Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. - There is nothing in /var/log/auth.log related to this and nothing that I can see in .xsession-errors. - I do not even get the Gnome authentication dialog If I run "kdesudo kpackagekit" then I can install packages without being prompted for a password. Without kdesudo it says "Waiting for Authentication" and times out after 5 minutes or so with a "Failed to authenticate" message. I am also unable to update the clock. I don't get prompted for a password at all to apply updates and updates install without a problem. I do get prompted for a password when running the file sharing configuration and in a few other places. -- [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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
