This sounds an awful lot like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/540247 It may be a duplicate. The only problem is in the end, my situation doesn't appear to be exactly the same. For me, /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not running. If I start it manually in terminal, everything goes back to working as expected.
jonat...@jonathan-desktop:~$ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome- authentication-agent-1 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:11849): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError' (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:11849): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed Ok so there everything is working as expected. If I quit the terminal, things go back to the way they were. I then tried some of the debugging near the end of the linked bug report: jonat...@jonathan-desktop:~$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=PolicyKit Authentication Agent Comment=PolicyKit Authentication Agent Exec=/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 Terminal=false Type=Application Categories= NoDisplay=true OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE; X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=polkit-gnome-1 jonat...@jonathan-desktop:~$ ls -l ~/.config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop ls: cannot access /home/jonathan/.config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop: No such file or directory jonat...@jonathan-desktop:~$ cat ~/.config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop cat: /home/jonathan/.config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop: No such file or directory As you can see, I don't have the .config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop file in my home folder. (Renaming/deleting this file solved that user's problem). -- Policy Kit Unlock not functioning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568748 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
