Impossible to type in passwords or update software packages in KUbuntu 10.10 fresh install

[Aswarp]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

I will describe my sympthoms:
Fresh install of KUbuntu 10.10.
I log in and get connected to a WiFi connection. I run the rekonq new embedded web browser and it offers details about some packages to be installed (flash player, etcetera). I try to install those and I am asked for authentication. I choose my username and try to type in a password but nothing happens. Apparently, password pop-up dialogs have some trouble in this new release, because nothing gets written. So I can not authenticate and install the packages.
So I try Firefox web browser instead, but it does not come preinstalled. I have to install it and I am asked again for password confirmation, and again it won't work.
So I try tu update my package list and web browsers from the terminal. I try apt-get, aptitude and synaptic, but none of them will work. I enter /var/lib/dpkg and sudo rename the archive 'lock' into 'lock_old' and try to run apt-get again, but to no avail.
I try kdesudo kpackagekit and it says that I need to update my software source (as I if didn't know by now...), but when I try, a message appears telling that the package cache could not be opened.
And that is it. I hope that you can help me. The patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kpackagekit/+bug/578605 does not help me clarify the problem or its solution because I do not understand what it is or how to use it, and I think that the average user wouldn't either.
Cheers

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

When referring to the patch above I meant this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kpackagekit/+bug/578605

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

On a fresh Kubuntu 10.10 install things related to PackageKit are completely different since the default backend of PackageKit has changed. So that bug you mention has nothing to do with the current version.
What kind of problem are you really having?

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

The bit of being unable to update software has been SOLVED using this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-621698.html
The solution involved backing up the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ then deleting everything inside it (except for the backup, obviously) and then running apt-get again.
The reamining trouble are: the one with passwrds not been properly typed in within dialog boxes.

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

The bit of being unable to update software has been SOLVED using this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-621698.html
The solution involved backing up the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ then deleting everything inside it (except for the backup, obviously) and then running apt-get again.
The reamining trouble is the one with passwords not been properly typed in within dialog boxes, either in KPackegeKit or other applications with routines which graphically require user authentication.

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

Ok, but what is this remaining trouble that you didn't describe?
You need to give us steps to reproduce, what you did, what didn't happen. Your bug report is too generic saying it does not work doesn't help us fix things, please provide details.
best.

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

I mean that when a pop-up dialog box is raised in order for the user to type in a password, nothing will be written (not even asterisks or black fat dots) within the text field even when the pop-up has got the focus and the user is striking the keyboard, which works all right elsewhere.

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

Ok, so you are filling a bug against the wrong tool it's PolicyKit-kde.
Thanks.