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)
Sounds like the KDE authentication daemon has crashed.
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).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 287878 ***