software-properties-gtk crashed with AttributeError in _check_policykit_privilege(): 'SoftwarePropertiesDBus' object has no attribute '_check_polkit_privilege'

[LostinSpacetime]

Happened after I tried to open synaptics. Synaptics didn't open.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 17 21:59:33 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk --open-tab 2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '--open-tab', '2']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with AttributeError in _check_policykit_privilege(): 'SoftwarePropertiesDBus' object has no attribute '_check_polkit_privilege'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Given that there have been no reports of this occurring on a release greater than Ubuntu 12.04 I am setting this bug to Fix Released.

https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk:AttributeError:on_add_clicked:__call__:call_blocking:_message_cb:AddSourceFromLine:_check_policykit_privilege