PolKit Auth Dialog Fails to Authenticate when using pkexec
Bug #1047706 reported by
Tim Lunn
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1077546: Gnome Shell sudo dialog said "Sorry, that didn't work. Please try again" when opening Synaptic.
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This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| GNOME Shell |
New
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Medium
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| gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Sometimes the polkit dialog fails to work properly. I will start typing my
password and before I have finished, I get the yellow "sorry, that didn’t work"
message and then the dialog closes. At no stage have a hit enter to actually
send my password.
This only happens for programs that use pkexec to launch (synaptic, gparted etc)
I have also been unable to reproduce the issues using either the pkexec console dialog, or standard gtk2? dialog. So it seems to be an issue with the shell's polkit helper.
Ubuntu: 12.10 beta
Gnome-shell: 3.5.91
| description: | updated |
| Changed in gnome-shell: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → New |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.