authorization failed dialog does not identify owner program

[Karl Hegbloom]

Binary package hint: packagekit-gnome

After I was away, I unlocked the screensaver to find a dialog box on the screen saying that an authorization had failed. I did not know what software's authorization had failed because the dialog doesn't tell me that. I had to use 'xprop' and a 'dpkg --search' to learn which package to report the bug on. There is a screenshot of the dialog box attached to this bug report.

Fixing the bug is a simple matter of naming the dialog box, so that the window manager puts it's name in the top of it's frame.

It would also be nice if the "more details" box had more to say than a simple repetition of the dialog box's main text; it really should have actual *more* details that can be used to figure out how to actually cause it to obtain the authorization that it is requesting from whatever source it's asking it from... which I have no idea because it doesn't tell me that!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: packagekit-gnome 2.29.2-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/gpk-application usr/bin/gpk-repo usr/bin/gpk-prefs usr/bin/gpk-service-pack usr/bin/gpk-install-catalog usr/bin/gpk-install-local-file usr/bin/gpk-install-mime-type usr/bin/gpk-install-provide-file usr/bin/gpk-install-package-name usr/bin/gpk-update-icon usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer usr/bin/gpk-log usr/bin/gpk-backend-status usr/bin/gpk-dbus-service]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia rr2310_00
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 11 14:28:36 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gpk-update-icon
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: packagekit-gnome

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago