No authorization prompts

[picoder]

I've looked across the forums a bit and saw resolutions to the reverse issue I'm having. Where those issues are always prompted for a password, I am never prompted for a password.

The problem with this is whenever an application requires admin authorization, I am not prompted to provide one. It goes directly from the progress bar to an authentication error popup, bypassing the middle step of actually prompting for a password. This is making even the most mundane of tasks (installing default wallpapers) to more important tasks (updating package information) impossible to accomplish.

Please advise and thank you.

[dibl]

Re: No authorization prompts

That is a most unusual problem -- I don't recall ever hearing it before. Google turned up this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...de/+bug/353278

Read down to reply #6, and from those tests you might be able to discover something about the problem on your system. It sounds like you need to verify that dbus is installed and working, and also that the policy-kit components are in their default configuration.

[picoder]

Re: No authorization prompts

Thank you for the reply.

I looked through the report you posted and noticed one of two things. For starters I am unable to run the polkit-auth command (command not found), so either I do not have it installed or this command has been deprecated in favor of something else since 9.04 (which is the version in question in that bug report). I looked through synaptic and did a search for policy and polkit, installed the packages that would contain this command (by my assumption mind you) and still am unable to access this command.

[Snowhog]

Re: No authorization prompts

The package is polkit-kde-1

[picoder]

Re: No authorization prompts

Yes, I have that package installed. Here's a listing of the packages I have installed that pertain to PolicyKit:

ii dc 1.06.95-2 The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.101-1ubuntu1 PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
ii libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.101-1ubuntu1 PolicyKit backend API
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.101-1ubuntu1 PolicyKit Authorization API
rc libpolkit-qt-1-0 0.95.1-1ubuntu1 PolicyKit-qt-1 library
ii libpolkit-qt-1-1 0.99.0-0ubuntu3 PolicyKit-qt-1 library
ii libsepol1 2.0.41-1 SELinux library for manipulating binary security policies
ii policykit-1 0.101-1ubuntu1 framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
ii policykit-desktop-privileges 0.4 run common desktop actions without password
ii polkit-kde-1 0.99.0-0ubuntu3 KDE dialogs for PolicyKit
ii rtkit 0.9-2 Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon

I feel it's also worth mentioning that I am running this through a VM that originally had Ubuntu Server 10.10 installed on it. I decided to try KDE again and installed the kubuntu-desktop package. I had the authorization prompts at this point because they appeared several times during the upgrade to 11.04 process.

It's at this point the prompts stopped appearing.

[ubuntuku]

Re: No authorization prompts

Please paste the output:

ps aux | grep polkit

[picoder]

Re: No authorization prompts

Here you go:

root    724 0.0 0.3 23704 3952 ?    Sl  May12  0:02 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
user  11221 0.0 1.4 86896 14804 ?    Sl  May13  0:01 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
user  15511 0.0 0.0  4160  860 pts/2  S+  09:25  0:00 grep polkit

[ubuntuku]

Re: No authorization prompts

It looks ok, both polkit daemon and agent is running. BTW did you set your username to user?

[picoder]

Re: No authorization prompts

No, I just put that in there to mask the actual username associated with it.