Authentication box does not place cursor as do all other authentication boxes in Karmic

[Don Manyette]

Binary package hint: software-center

Bug is minor and cosmetic. All other boxes which ask for password put the cursor in the correct field. The software center does not. (I always start typing, then have to go back and place the cursor correctly!)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 2 14:19:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Alex Wardle (awardle)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this bug reproducible? I have checked it on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 and the cursor is placed in the password box.

[Don Manyette (manyette-cox)]

Hi Alex, I had no idea that it would be different under different systems, but yes, it is consistent and reproducible. I admit I can't imagine what would make that kind of difference. If it helps any, the laptop is an Acer 5570Z, with a dual core T2080. If I can furnish any further info, please just ask. E-mail is in my profile. But it is minor and cosmetic.

[Don Manyette (manyette-cox)]

Hi Alex, well the plot thickens. I tried it on my desktop which is also running 910 on a Intel Pentium IV. It also places the cursor correctly, so this seems peculiar to my machine or processor. I do not have a clue where this is leading, but I'm willing to try anything you can suggest.

[Don Manyette (manyette-cox)]

Alex, I don't know if this will help or not, but here is the CPUID info for the processor that is failing to place the cursor properly:
Vendor ID: "GenuineIntel"; CPUID level 10

Intel-specific functions:
Version 000006ec:
Type 0 - Original OEM
Family 6 - Pentium Pro
Model 14 -
Stepping 12
Reserved 0

Extended brand string: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHz"
CLFLUSH instruction cache line size: 8
Hyper threading siblings: 2

Feature flags bfe9fbff:
FPU Floating Point Unit
VME Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements
DE Debugging Extensions
PSE Page Size Extensions
TSC Time Stamp Counter
MSR Model Specific Registers
PAE Physical Address Extension
MCE Machine Check Exception
CX8 COMPXCHG8B Instruction
APIC On-chip Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller present and enabled
SEP Fast System Call
MTRR Memory Type Range Registers
PGE PTE Global Flag
MCA Machine Check Architecture
CMOV Conditional Move and Compare Instructions
FGPAT Page Attribute Table
CLFSH CFLUSH instruction
DS Debug store
ACPI Thermal Monitor and Clock Ctrl
MMX MMX instruction set
FXSR Fast FP/MMX Streaming SIMD Extensions save/restore
SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set
SSE2 SSE2 extensions
SS Self Snoop
HT Hyper Threading
TM Thermal monitor
31 reserved

TLB and cache info:
b0: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
b3: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
02: Instruction TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 2 entries
f0: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
78: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
30: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
04: Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 8 entries
2c: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
Processor serial: 0000-06EC-0000-0000-0000-0000

//Don Manyette

[meatwaddancin (meatwaddancin)]

I can confirm this issue as well. Whenever I click Install, the password box comes up and I begin typing, but instead it starts searching in the Ubuntu Software Center behind it. And not in the actual search box, just searching as if you click in the window and start typing.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The speed of the computer probably affects how quickly the password dialog appears after you click "Install". This, in turn, affects whether the window manager decides to focus the dialog. This is because PolicyKit (the software that powers the dialog) doesn't know that the dialog is supposed to be modal to the main Ubuntu Software Center window. This is because the PolicyKit maintainer refuses to accept an API that would let us communicate to PolicyKit which window the dialog should be modal to.