polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 not started on login
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dbus (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: policykit-1
I appear to not be getting prompted (by policy kit?) for unlocking administrative tasks, and therefore I cannot access them. I've tried System ->Administration ->Login Screen and System ->Administration ->Time and Date. It's possibly why I'm experiencing this bug as well: https:/
I'm attaching a brief screencast. Please let me know if I can do other checking, testing, or provide more info.
Ubuntu Lucid 64-bit with all updates to-date.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: policykit-1 0.96-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 22 19:06:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: policykit-1
This sounds an awful lot like https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ policykit- 1-gnome/ +bug/540247 It may be a duplicate. The only problem is in the end, my situation doesn't appear to be exactly the same. For me, /usr/lib/ policykit- 1-gnome/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1 is not running. If I start it manually in terminal, everything goes back to working as expected.
jonathan@ jonathan- desktop: ~$ /usr/lib/ policykit- 1-gnome/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1
(polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1:11849) : GLib-GObject- WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'
(polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1:11849) : GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization _value != 0' failed
Ok so there everything is working as expected. If I quit the terminal, things go back to the way they were. I then tried some of the debugging near the end of the linked bug report:
jonathan@ jonathan- desktop: ~$ cat /etc/xdg/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop lib/policykit- 1-gnome/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1 GNOME;XFCE; Gettext- Domain= polkit- gnome-1
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Comment=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Exec=/usr/
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=
X-Ubuntu-
jonathan@ jonathan- desktop: ~$ ls -l ~/.config/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop .config/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /home/jonathan/
jonathan@ jonathan- desktop: ~$ cat ~/.config/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop .config/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop: No such file or directory
cat: /home/jonathan/
As you can see, I don't have the .config/ autostart/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1.desktop file in my home folder. (Renaming/deleting this file solved that user's problem).