cannot execute sudo permissions

[StuartCarter]

Various sudo permissions seem to have disappeared from my account. Mine was the first account created and is a member of adm and sudo groups.

Permissions that have stopped working:

A) I get muon notification in the task bar that there are system updates. Clicking on that icon either does nothing at all, or if the interface comes up and I select "install updates" the process immediately reports that I do not have permission to perform that action as "authentication has not been provided", even though no permissions were sought - the "enter sudo password" dialog box never appears. To install updates I have to drop to the terminal and run sudo muon.

B) I can no longer log out or exit the system from the KDE menu. Clicking K - leave - logout (or shutdown or restart) simply silently fails. Nothing happens. I have to drop to the terminal and run sudo shutdown -r now.

Neither of these situations are acceptable.

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

I think you filed this under the wrong project?

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

I came in via launchpad. I don't know why it selected oslo messaging.

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

oh come on. Over a month and I have barely even received an acknowledgement.

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

Mid June and I still have to drop to a terminal to reboot. I cannot even logout any more.

Two months.

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

August. Four months. STILL nobody has replied since the person who said this was in the wrong place.

Utterly pathetic.

[Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)]

Hi Stuart - the KDE team would most likely benefit from knowing the Kubuntu release that you're experiencing this issue on.

Additionally, do you have any idea if the loss of privileges corresponded to a sudo update? Thanks!

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

Thank you for responding, Tyler.

Kubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
KDE 4.13.3
Kernel 3.13.0-3-generic

As far as I recall, 5 months after the issue, it seemed to happen after a batch of security updates. I always keep my OS fully patched with all recommended updates which is what has made this even more frustrating - deploying a "Security update" appears to have broken basic functionality.

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

I opened this in April.

It's now November.

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

By the way. I now no longer even get notifications of updates. I have to drop to terminal and manually run sudo muon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

Happy New Year! Still not bloody fixed!

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

Happy new Year to U too!

Pls report back: On creation of a new user - does this happen there too?

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

In addition check ownership of the Xauthority file for the main-user:

ls -ldh /home/$USER/.Xauthority

Report result.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

Further reading:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/270006/why-user-should-never-use-normal-sudo-to-start-graphical-application

[StuartCarter (stuart-carter)]

comment 12: Creation of new user - KUSER asks for admin password, accepts it and seems to work perfectly for user creation and user deletion.

Comment 13: me@laptop:~$ ls -ldh .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 stuart stuart 170 Dec 31 15:41 .Xauthority

I don't see the relevance of your comment at 14 as I have been using sudo to execute the elevated privileges anyway.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

excuse me - "rights elevated" won't come from a security-update. Thats strictly impossible + there would more than 1 bug-report covering this.

What I have been askin: Can U reproduce this behaviour with a new user? (just dont forget to ad him to group admin
)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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