Authentication window hangs in update manager

[Kupfer]

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition 64bit on my Asus Eee PC 1005PE for a ride as the Atom N450 is said to be supporting 64bit. Everything is working surprisingly great except for this:

When I start the update manager and it finds packages I click on Install Updates.
An authentication window pops up.
I give in the correct password but the authentication window doesn't dissapear. The empty field for the password entry disappears but not the authentication window itself. No error message is given - the authentication window just hangs there. Nothing happens if I wait.

When I force quit the hanging the hanging authentication window, I get back to the update manager. I click again on Install Updates, the authentication window pops up and again, the same problem.

I have to run apt-get upgrade to install updates and everything is working fine then - I give in my password and it's okay. The problem is only when I'm trying to install updates via the graphical update manager.

Machine: Asus EeePc 1005pe Netbook
OS: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick 64bit
Update Manager Package: 1:0.142.20

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can you please run in a terminal
sudo apt-get clean
then from Synaptic reinstall update-manager and update-manager-core to see if fix?
Thanks
Fabio

[Kupfer (tamas-kadas)]

Thank you Fabio, this indeed solved the problem. I ran sudo apt-get clean and reinstalled the packages - since then I updated three times and authentication worked every time. Thanks again, bug report can be closed now.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello kupfer
Thanks for the reply
I close this report
fabio

[Kupfer (tamas-kadas)]

Problem returned: Authentication window hanging. I run sudo apt-get clean and reinstall the packages (update-manager_1%3a0.142.20_all.deb and update-manager-core_1%3a0.142.20_amd64.deb) and it works for a while (maybe until you reboot) and then again not. If you reinstall again and again it also works just for a while and you have to reinstall again.