Muon-updater fails to ask for authentication

[Darren Peets]

When attempting to install updates in muon-updater, clicking Install Updates immediately returns a dialog box stating "This operation cannot continue since proper authorisation was not provided", without first asking for a password.

Reinstalling polkit-kde-1 does not help, killing qaptworker2 does not help.

Actual behaviour: the above error message.
Expected behaviour: software asks for password, installs updates

muon-updater:
  Installed: 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

Various things to check were suggested under Bug 833058, so a file is attached with more information

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: muon-updater 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri May 16 10:27:49 2014
SourcePackage: muon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (26 days ago)

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!