A simple workaround that works in my case (while the bug is fixed): 1. When you get updates notified, open the update manager as usual 2. Instead of installing the existing updates (this will produce the problem we all have), pres Check for new updates. This will ask for the admin password and will work correctly. You will obtain the same list of updates. 3. Press Install the updates. Since the admin password was entered in previous step, it will not be asked for again Voila!
PS: My system is quite up to date hardware wise, I don't think it's because of it being slow (Core 2 duo extreme, 8 Gigs of ram ...) running Hardy. Previous version (Gutsy?) worked fine -- update-manager fails to bring up the password prompt for root privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187982 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
