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policykit-kde package

  1. Bug #353278
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 353278

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 06:23 +0000, d2globalinc wrote:
> Having same issue - will not prompt for password - just comes back with Failed message in gui.. Output from terminal is: Select user: Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
> Authentification error : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply : Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
>
> lines before this show:
> Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
> Authentication as an administrative user is required.
> The following users qualify as administrative users: <with my username listed here>
>
> Same thing happens when trying to apply all available updates, or when
> trying to open a .deb file from dolphin when it uses KPackageKit.. GDebi
> works fine and asks for password as normal when opening .deb file using
> OPEN WITH from dolphin.

Could you please try the following from the command line?

  polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update

see what happens, and report any messages.

Thanks,

James