Comment 21 for bug 1727908

I find that primary(left-clicking) up to 15 or 20+ times _eventually_
spawns the pkexec-gui box.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:26 AM Bjoern H. <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I have this issue both in 18.10 and 19.04. Using arrows and space does
> not work, the only workaround I've found is "sudo software-properties-
> gtk". Would be happy to provide any details that could be useful.
>
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> Title:
> Software & Updates application does not permit changes on the "Other
> Software" tab
>
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>
> On the "Other Software" tab, I am unable to select "Canonical Partners".
> Similarly, the other checkboxes on the "Other Software" can not be
> clicked.
> Clicking on a checkbox has no effect, and a dialog requesting the admin
> password is not presented.
>
> However, activating or deactivating checkboxes on other tabs causes an
> authorization dialog to be presented to the user.
>
> I experience this bug in an an Xorg session.
>
> sources.list and sources.list.d have the following permissions:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2897 Oct 26 22:35 sources.list
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 21:29 sources.list.d
>
> All files in sources.list.d have the following permissions as this
> example:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Oct 25 21:50 google-chrome.list
>
> $ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 17.10
> Release: 17.10
>
> $ apt-cache policy software-properties-gtk
> software-properties-gtk:
> Installed: 0.96.24.17
> Candidate: 0.96.24.17
> Version table:
> *** 0.96.24.17 500
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64
> Packages
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
> Package: software-properties-gtk 0.96.24.17
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Thu Oct 26 22:45:09 2017
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-26 (1 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10.0 2017.10.25 amd64 "Custom Artful
> Aardvark"
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm-256color
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: software-properties
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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