I had the same problem, it looks like pexec is no more working on recent Ubuntu
version.
It was generating a lot of crash windows at startup.
A quick and dirty fix (no more errors at least):
# sudo mv /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/pkexec.old
# sudo ln -s /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/pkexec
Sincerely
Technical Details:
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Nov 9 14:35:29 2013
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pkexec
ExecutableTimestamp: 1379527177
ProcCmdline: pkexec /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-system-locked
ProcCwd: /home/mystercoco
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
** Changed in: policykit (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Fix Committed
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