Bug 327082

Summary:	I get a strange notification every five minutes
Product:	[Applications] apper	Reporter:	Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot of notification

Description Mathias Homann 2013-11-03 12:25:25 UTC

For a few days I have been getting this weird notification saying "Autorization not possible" with no further details.
The popup is mixed german and english.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Since I don't know what causes the popup it is hard to reproduce, but it DOES come back every five minutes.

Comment 1 Mathias Homann 2013-11-03 12:26:12 UTC

Created attachment 83312 [details]
Screenshot of notification

Screenshot

Comment 2 Mathias Homann 2013-11-03 12:27:14 UTC

Weird detail on the side, my wife is getting it too, in mixed german and english, and her desktop is configured to be english only...

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-11-05 22:26:11 UTC

Could you check if one of the kded4 modules is responsible (update notifiers etc.)? For disabling kded4 modules, please see http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/troubleshooting-kded4-bugs/

Comment 4 Wolfgang Bauer 2013-11-06 08:10:08 UTC

I think this message is coming from the updater (Apper) trying to refresh the repositories, but not getting the authorization to do so because the user's session is not registered with logind. (can be caused by a wrong pam configuration)

See this forum thread for a possible way to fix this:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/491766-authorization-failed.html

Comment 5 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-11-06 10:43:16 UTC

Yes, it can be the a logind issue or polkit-kde not running.
Normally the policy allows for the user to refresh the repos so indeed it might be logind.

Comment 6 Mathias Homann 2013-11-06 19:36:45 UTC

It seems that it was a pam configuration issue, I have pam_kwallet to open the kde wallet on login, now that I moved the pam calls for that from common-auth and common-session to xdm all seems to be ok.

Comment 7 Wolfgang Bauer 2013-11-08 12:31:55 UTC

OK, I guess this can be closed then...