Bug 288313

Summary: Automatic updates doesn't have authorization to install these updates
Product: [Plasma] policykit-kde-agent-1 Reporter: Rudolf Leitgeb <Rudolf.Leitgeb>
Component: generalAssignee: Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mbriza
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Rudolf Leitgeb 2011-12-06 07:54:18 UTC
Version:           0.2 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

Every so often I get a popup notification that the muon updater would like to install a list of updates for my Kubuntu 11.10 system. Happily I tell it to go ahead but every time I get a popup window telling me it lacks authorization to do so. The regular ubuntu updater doesn't seem to have this problem and installs the updates in a hitch.

Yes, I am admin user (but not root), so sudo or whatever KDE uses would work, if the update cared to ask me for a password. It doesn't, though :(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Wait for Ubuntu to release updates
- Click on popup notifier that there are updates to be installed
- The muon window opens and displays a list of updates
- Click on the green check mark to install the listed updates
- Cheer at popup window telling you it can't do that because it lacks authorization

Actual Results:  
popup window telling you it can't install updates for lack of authorization. 

Expected Results:  
either that it installs updates or that it asks me for my password and then proceeds with installing the updates.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-13-generic
Compiler: gcc
Distro: Kubuntu oneiric ocelot, fully updates (except for the latest updates which are completely unrelated to KDE)
Comment 1 Jonathan Thomas 2011-12-06 12:24:28 UTC
Sounds like the KDE authentication daemon has crashed.
Comment 2 Rudolf Leitgeb 2011-12-07 08:34:44 UTC
Could you please provide some pointers how I could investigate that? A search for "KDE authentication daemon" yields nothing useful and if that daemon really crashes, it does this without popping up any crash notifier (unlike nepomuk, kde-plasma, digikam).
Comment 3 Martin Bříza 2013-03-27 14:09:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 287878 ***