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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #685596
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 685596

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up

Ah, sorry, I didn't know you weren't using GNOME. The gnome-settings-daemon part is not essential at all: the idea was only to use the PID of a process that is known to be running - you can use any program name here.

The polkitd log contains the explanation to your problem:
** (polkitd:1592): DEBUG: subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (local=1 active=0)
Your session is not considered as active. Are you working over VNC or another remote desktop system? This is the usual cause of this issue, there's a bug 187585 about that.

So the current bug is that users-admin doesn't report correctly when authentication couldn't be obtained. The rest is a problem elsewhere. It shouldn't be hard to fix at all, would you try to write a patch? Else I'll try to do it myself, but I'm not making any promise.