update-manager doesn't report authentication failure
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
In the Update Manager (update-manager package version 1:0.142.22 on Maverick amd64), clicking the "Settings..." button raises a gksu dialog if authentication is needed. But if the wrong password is entered, no error is reported, and no action is taken. If the user does not realize that s/he entered the wrong password, the user would likely assume that some other unknown problem was preventing the Software Sources window from coming up.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.142.22
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 12 02:30:50 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
I have just tried to reproduce this bug on a Maverick i386 system, and was unable to do so. While I suppose it's possible that this occurs only on amd64, it seems more likely that there's some other important factor. Both systems do have the same package versions for update-manager, as well as for gksu (package version 2.0.2-2ubuntu3).