Ubuntu
policykit-desktop-privileges package

  1. Bug #1240336
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 1240336

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Sourish Basu (sourish-basu) wrote : Re: After release upgrade, the user looses permissions for several basic actions in the system

Made an account to say that #52 worked for me. After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04, I had lost sound, the ability to shut down/reboot as a normal user, and the ability to mount external SD cards/hard drives. Did "sudo pam-auth-update --force" and "sudo apt-get remove --purge libpam-ck-connector" as #52 suggested, and after a reboot, everything worked again!

I should say that at this point my pam.d is close, but not identical to, a fresh 14.04 install.