[Bug 943235] Re: "System policy prevents installing the bootloader" is nonsense

[Brian Murray]

Half of this dialog is from usb-creator, I'm not sure about the super
user part.

** Tags added: bitesize

** Tags added: string-fix

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Tags added: precise

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  "System policy prevents installing the bootloader" is nonsense

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  usb-creator-gtk 0.2.34, Ubuntu 11.10

  Perhaps it does not always appear, but sometimes a PolicyKit alert
  appears saying "System policy prevents installing the bootloader ...
  Authentication as the super user is required to perform this action".

  This is not about the alert appearing at all (bug 859539), it is about
  the text. You should never say "System policy prevents" something in
  an alert that exists solely to let you do that thing. And you should
  never say "Authentication as the super user is required" on an
  operating system that doesn't have a super user.

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