Public bug reported: Summary: -------------
I recently performed a dist update via update-manager to install 10.4, since the install, I have not been able to perform any action that requires elevated privileges from the desktop, such as changing the CPU step via CpuFreq applet, Log off/Shutdown/Sleep/Hibernate via the Shutdown applet, and SD Card/USB drives are not auto mounting. I can perform privileged actions via sudo in a terminal. dmesg/syslog showed nothing interesting to me (maybe someone can see something useful there) however there were some interesting error messages among other messages in .xsession-errors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1413): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError' (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1413): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed Screen isn't composited Google: ---------- I googled around for some time in hopes of finding a quick solution, and found some issues that seemed similar to what I am encountering. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-812066.html Bug #445303 Bug #540769 Bug #482875 However none of the suggested fixes helped resolve my issue. Other Interesting Things to Note That May Be Related: --------------------------------------------------------------------- When running polkit-gnome-authorization (either as my self, or as root) I only see 4 tree nodes: (Revoke,Read, Modify and Grant Authorizations to other users) nothing else. When I run users-admin as my self I can not change any of my privileges. If I run it with sudo I see the following message on stdout and i am then able to modify my privileges. ~ > sudo users-admin [sudo] password for pat: (users-admin:5222): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating asynchronously with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. I only have awn in my local .config/autostart/ directory ~ > ls .config/autostart/ awn.desktop I attempted to edit my hal.conf by adding copying all the entries under the "root" user tag, under the default tag. with no effect. and I also "aptitude removed hal" with still no change. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.197 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu May 13 17:07:24 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- No privilages to perform many actions from desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580227 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
