Comment 83 for bug 353278

I got linked here from another bug marked as a duplicate of this one. I don't know of a better place to report this--if there is, please let me know...

I've been running Kubuntu Lucid since Beta 1 and I think in that distribution policykit-1-kde wasn't ready yet ... it came in some later update. I've installed and re-installed it and the base policykit-1 package and I experience the same results. (In fact, I did a purge on policykit-1-kde, which removed several hundred packages including kde-workspace-bin. I immediately re-installed the affected packages and rebooted--so far so good. Still experiencing the same behavior with respect to kpackagekit.)

Symptoms are this:
 - policykit-1 is installed, as are policykit-1-kde and policykit-1-gnome
 - polkitd is running
 - polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 is running
 - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gnome-org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.AuthenticationAgent.service does not exist
 - /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists
 - /etc/xdg/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists
 - ~/.config/autostart/ is empty
 - polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update outputs the following and immediate returns with exit status 1:

Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.

 - There is nothing in /var/log/auth.log related to this and nothing that I can see in .xsession-errors.
 - I do not even get the Gnome authentication dialog

If I run "kdesudo kpackagekit" then I can install packages without being prompted for a password. Without kdesudo it says "Waiting for Authentication" and times out after 5 minutes or so with a "Failed to authenticate" message. I am also unable to update the clock.

I don't get prompted for a password at all to apply updates and updates install without a problem. I do get prompted for a password when running the file sharing configuration and in a few other places.