Software & Updates application does not permit changes on the "Other Software" tab
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
software-properties (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Sebastien Bacher | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Sebastien Bacher |
Bug Description
* Impact
Changes on the 'Other Software tab' sometime fail to ask for credential and fail to apply as a consequence
* Test Case
- start software-
- got to the 'Other Software Tab'
- try to change the value of a checkbox
The change should prompt for a password and be active
* Regression potential
the change is a small sleep workaround to avoid trying to get the focus while GTK still has it, outside of a tiny delay in the active it should have no consequence
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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-
software-
Installed: 0.96.24.17
Candidate: 0.96.24.17
Version table:
*** 0.96.24.17 500
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: software-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
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"
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
tags: | added: bionic |
tags: |
added: eoan removed: amd64 |
tags: | added: rls-bb-incoming |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sebastien Bacher (seb128) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sebastien Bacher (seb128) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sebastien Bacher (seb128) |
tags: | removed: disco |
tags: | removed: artful |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
no longer affects: | gnome-shell (Ubuntu Bionic) |
no longer affects: | gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
description: | updated |
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Note, when I run software- properties- gtk from the command line, here is the output I receive whenever I click on a checkbox on the "Other Software" tab.
$ software- properties- gtk Authentication canceled, changes have not been saved
ERROR:root: