polkit-kde-manager hangs when it should ask for a password

[Michael Ummels]

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

When installing a package using kpackagekit, the system hangs after resolving the dependencies. At this point, a dialog box should appear that asks the user for his password in order to determine whether he has admin rights. In fact, polkit-kde-manager, whose job it is to open such a box starts, but no dialog is displayed. As a result, kpackagekit freezes and does not react to user inputs anymore.

This bug occurs on all our installations, which have ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop installed. On installations that only have kubuntu-desktop installed, this bug does not show.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 17 17:06:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-manager
Package: kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686