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