System Testing hangs indefinitely when using a guest account

[David Collins]

Binary package hint: checkbox

When I start System Testing (/usr/bin/checkbox-gtk and also System->Administration menu), it shows me a screen, I click "next", and then the activity bar dialog comes up and it just stays like that continuously. I can still move the main window around and resize it, but I can't close it.

If I may be presumptive, I think the problem lies with permissions. When I click "next", a taskbar item comes up displaying "Starting Administrative..." but then quickly closes. I think the system realises that as a Guest account I don't have authorisation to run this operation, but instead of quitting outright or showing up an Administrative password dialogue, it just hangs continuously, quitting part of the application but leaving the rest running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: checkbox-gtk 0.9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 28 17:11:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: checkbox

[valkyr (locki)]

Reproducible on Maverick by clicking <Cancel> at the administrative password prompt.

Continuous scrolling bar "Gathering information from your system..."

No known way to kill it.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

This same bug has been reported several times. The master bug is #561837

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Marking as Invalid, as this is a duplicate of bug 561837