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policykit-1-gnome package

  1. Bug #540247
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 540247

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: [users-admin] no authorization dialog, unable to add user

OK, you have a PolicyKit problem: you just need to have an authentication agent running. That's why it works in KDE and not in GNOME. Start /usr/lib/policykit-gnome/polkit-gnome-manager in the background, and everything will be fine.

Now we need to find out why this daemon is not running automatically. Do you have a file at /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gnome-org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.AuthenticationAgent.service? Are there errors in /var/log/messages about DBus not being able to start that daemon?