Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
In 10.10 when clicking the Install Updates button the update-manager
does not ask me for a password, nor is there any error message it just
fails silently. This is when run as non-root. When running as root it
works, it also worked before 10.10.
After digging around a bit it seems the problem was that
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 was not running.
Starting that makes it work.
Setting the environment variable UPDATE_MANAGER_FORCE_BACKEND_SYNAPTIC also
makes it work for non-root because synaptic is started with gksu.
For me the error here is that there should have been an error message
with some kind of hint what might be wrong (not sure how specific you
can be, pointing at policykit would have helped a lot). I suppose there
might be a problem that the error is not returned to update-manager.
(The reason the polkit thingy wasn't running is that I don't run gnome or kde
so the things added to /etc/xdg/autostart aren't actually started. So that is
fine.)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
"Install Updates" fails silently if polkit agent is not running
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