jockey-kde tries to install driver as user
Bug #872442 reported by
Matthew Smith
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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jockey (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Bug Description
After installing "kubuntu-desktop" having installed the GNOME-based Ubuntu Oneiric, I found the Jockey restricted driver installer by searching in the K menu. It showed me the choice of ATI restricted drivers, but when I clicked "Activate", it told me I did not have the privileges necessary to perform the action, i.e. it had not invoked sudo (or its equivalent) and was trying to install the driver as me, rather than as root.
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It's not supposed to use sudo, but uses policykit. This works fine under a standard Ubuntu and a standard Kubuntu install. This is not an upstream jockey bug, so retargetting.
When do you "pkexec whoami", do you get a dialog for your password? Please give me the output of
dpkg -l '*pol*kit*' | grep ^ii