Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2012, 15:16 +0000 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: 
> Yes, this is the whole problem. but maybe we can at least show a
> message indicating this issue or find some other solution, because
> this behaviour is highly confusing for new users.

You can inspect is_challenged parameter of the AuthorizationResult. If
you allow interaction and is_challenged is False there seems to be a
problem with the agent setup. But I haven't looked at the PackageKit
code if this is already done and the wording of the error message could
be improved.
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/eggdbus-interface-org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.html#eggdbus-struct-AuthorizationResult

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