Authenticate dialog sometimes does not close after entering password
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
policykit (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
policykit-gnome (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: software-center
Sometimes, after entering the password in the Authenticate dialog and pressing Enter, the dialog does not close. Instead just the Password field disappears. The rest of the dialog remains visible, but the Cancel and Authenticate buttons do nothing. The close button in the titlebar does work though, and if you close the dialog using that the Software Center proceeds to install the selected software, so the password was obviously still accepted.
Unfortunately I have not yet discovered a pattern to this, so I can't give definite instructions to reproduce. The best I can do is say that it happens now and again. Say once every five times. I will add more information if and when I do discover a pattern.
This is in karmic 64-bits. Version of software center is 1.0.2.
affects: | software-center (Ubuntu) → gksu (Ubuntu) |
I am sorry but I cannot confirm this bug without reproducing it.
You indicate the password field "disappears". Would it be possible to attach a screen-print of the dialog box with the missing password field? If you are comfortable installing/removing software from the command line then could you try that and update the bug report with any errors or warnings you see during the installation/ removal process?
If you cannot reproduce the problem we will have a hard time getting it resolved but I think we can confirm the bug with a missing password field. Hopefully one of the developers can theorize a reason for the missing field and hopefully a code review will help track down the bug.