[Bug 1372187] Re: Desktop console-kit permissions (e.g shutdown, network, users) broken for all accounts after upgrade to 14.10

[Laurens Bosscher]

I managed to fix this bug by removing upstart. When I reinstall it the
bug comes back.

I know it's not a decent solution but I hope it helps you guys debug
this issue. I'm of course willing to do further debugging work.

This 7 page topic on the Ubuntu forums seems to have lots of users with the same problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2246405

As far as I can see I only have the amd64 version of libpam-systemd
installed. Synaptics list these files as installed for the package
libpam-systemd :

/.
/lib
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libpam-systemd
/usr/share/doc/libpam-systemd/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libpam-systemd/copyright
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_systemd.8.gz
/usr/share/pam-configs
/usr/share/pam-configs/systemd

Just to be sure I ran:

sudo apt-get remove libpam-systemd:i386 and libsystemd-login0:i386
sudo apt-get remove libpam-modules:i386 libpam-cap:i386

The output was as following:

laurens at laurens-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove libpam-systemd:i386 and libsystemd-login0:i386
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd       
De status informatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
Package 'and' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libpam-systemd:i386' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libpam-systemd'?
Package 'libsystemd-login0:i386' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libsystemd-login0'?
0 pakketten opgewaardeerd, 0 pakketten nieuw geïnstalleerd, 0 te verwijderen en 212 niet opgewaardeerd.
laurens at laurens-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove libpam-modules:i386 libpam-cap:i386
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd       
De status informatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
Package 'libpam-cap:i386' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libpam-cap'?
Package 'libpam-modules:i386' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libpam-modules'?
0 pakketten opgewaardeerd, 0 pakketten nieuw geïnstalleerd, 0 te verwijderen en 212 niet opgewaardeerd.

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Title:
  Desktop console-kit permissions (e.g shutdown, network, users) broken
  for all accounts after upgrade to 14.10

Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1. System worked without any problems under 14.04
  2. Upgrade to 14.10
  3. Upgrade went without any problems
  4. Notice that standby has disappeared from the "gears" menu
  5. notice that I cannot disconnect or change the network connection (exact error is: "(32) Not authorized to control networking.")
  6. I can't see, change or unlock setting under Settings > User accounts
  7. Running "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop" from the terminal results in the error: "Error org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.NotPrivileged: Not Authorized"
  8. Running "sudo pam-auth-update --force" doesn't solve any errors
  9. Creating a new user account (sudo adduser) and switching to the account results in the same permission problems.

  Sudo works as expected so I can help to further debug this problem and
  provide relevant information. Unfortunately I have very limited
  experience with ConsoleKit and PAM so I hope I have reported this to
  the right package.

  If someone could point me in the right direction (wiki, man page,
  tutorial) I would be more than happy to see if I can see what went
  wrong and if I can debug this myself.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: consolekit 0.4.6-5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-16.22-generic 3.16.2
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Sep 21 23:55:41 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-21 (518 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130421)
  SourcePackage: consolekit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-14 (7 days ago)

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