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software-properties package

software-properties-gtk crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: com.ubuntu.softwareproperties.applychanges

Bug #824684 reported by Ryan B. on 2011-08-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #828850: software-properties-gtk crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: com.ubuntu.softwareproperties.applychanges. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Logged into main account with standard Ubuntu option, blank screen with no unity appears. Plenty of errors

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 10 20:45:42 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: com.ubuntu.softwareproperties.applychanges
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-06 (4 days ago)
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Ryan B. (ryanbessey) wrote on 2011-08-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (32.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (750 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (552 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2011-08-24

affects:	ubuntu → software-properties (Ubuntu)
tags:	removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-09-23:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-10-01

visibility:	private → public
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-05-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #828850, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.