Comment 31 for bug 353278

Leo Milano wrote:
> Surprise, the bug is _still_ gone after downgrading those packages (and
> I am sure they were downgraded). In fact, I rebooted after trying again,
> because I was afraid there could be some environment variable still
> hanging from your new packages.
>
> I also tried to to purge all policiykit packages from Synaptic, and
> reinstall the ones from the ubuntu repos, because I have the feeling
> that your new packages might have left some residual config files
> somewhere that make it work even with the older packages. But too many
> things depend on policikit, purging policykit would wipe most of my
> install.
>
> I see if I can force a purge from the command line, just the four
> packages you mentioned (without checking for dependencies). I am sure
> one of the 500 flags for apt-get does that :-) Maybe you know exactly
> and you are around :-)

You can do --force-depends, but I don't think that's necessary.

Your findings suggest that just re-installing may fix the issue.

Can anyone else confirm that reinstalling the policykit-related
packages fixes the issue?

Thanks,

James