[time-admin] clock applet context menu doesn't allow "Adjust Date & Time"

[Matti Lindell]

Feisty Herd 1
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.17.3-0ubuntu2

Right clicking clock applet on gnome-panel and choosing "Adjust Date & Time" doesn't allow user on admin group to change system time. Menu item is probably missing call to gksu wrapper?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug

[Michael Smith (enginerd)]

Latest updates fixed this...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for the comment, fixed by that upload:

 gnome-panel (2.16.2-0ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low
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   * Add 16_gksu_time_admin.patch:
     - patch uploaded to edgy-proposed by Martin Pitt
     - clock-applet: Run time-admin through gksudo.
     - New system-tools-backends confines frontends to root user, see LP#59946.

[wutzin (chris-siller)]

still NOT fixed - I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 with all updates as of today and am still unable to set the time:

When I right-click on the time applet in my panel and choose "adjust date + time", I enter my root pw and are presented with the time dialog. I want to set the time one hour in advance - I click on the up arrow next to the hour and to increase the hour by one - but after about 1-2 seconds, the hour jumps back to what it was!
I have set the synchronize option to "manual" - plus when I try setting it to "keep synchronized with internet servers" I get an error that ntp is not installed - so the problem can't be that it is a ntp server changing the time.

This is really annoying - I ran into the "sudo timestamp too far in the future" bug after my Ubuntu switched to winter time (hmm, how did that happen if ntp isn't installed???) - so I can't issue any sudo commands in the terminal until I change the time. So I thought I'd just change the time with the "adjust date and time" applet to regain sudo access, but this doesn't work either.

Either gksudo is also affected by the root timestamp issue but won't tell me (but then the applet should fail to load, right?) and that's the reason why it won't update the time, OR there is something else buggy.

[wutzin (chris-siller)]

additional info:

I fixed the sudo timestamp issue - but when I call sudo time-admin, I am still unable to adjust the time. When I try to set the clock, it takes a second, then it jumps back to the old value and gives the following error:

(time-admin:7145): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)