Bug 286026

Summary:	Muon does not ask for password, instead errors out that proper authentication is not provided
Product:	[Plasma] policykit-kde-agent-1	Reporter:	Gopi <kgshank>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dwrunkle, mbriza
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Gopi 2011-11-07 18:16:56 UTC

Version:           1.2.1 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

When I try any operation from Muon , installation, removal or update, there is no prompt for the password, but I receive an error, that proper authentication was not provided.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Search for any software and try installation

Actual Results:  
Proper prompt for authentication

Expected Results:  
No Prompt for authentication

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-13-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Jonathan Thomas 2011-11-07 21:18:58 UTC

Sounds like the KDE PolicyKit frontend is crashing or has crashed.

Comment 2 dwrunkle 2012-06-13 14:27:13 UTC

Same thing happens to me.  Looked at Authorizations log and founs some entried for PolicyKit fromk yesterday but none since I booted today.

Comment 3 Martin Bříza 2013-03-27 14:12:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 279270 ***