[Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

[Steve Kroon]

@Leo, James

I installed the policykit from James' PPA, and the bug is still there
(i.e. update-notifier tells me I don't have privileges, rather than
prompting for username and password.

However, I found out that when I run update-notifier-kde on the command-
line, at the stage where I usually get this error message, there is a
prompt for user information on the command line.  Filling that in works,
and the upgrade goes through.  Here's a transcript:

skroon at mania:~$ update-notifier-kde
9;6kcmshell(14690) KpkTransactionBar::setBehaviors: Hide! 1
New transaction with tid "/151_abdcacac_data"
New transaction with tid "/152_deaabdbc_data"
removing transaction from pool :  "/151_abdcacac_data"
removing transaction from pool :  "/152_deaabdbc_data"
Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
Authentication as an administrative user is required.
The following users qualify as administrative users: skroon
Select user: skroon
Password:
Keep this privilege for the session or always? [no/session/always]?
no
Successfully obtained the authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
New transaction with tid "/153_abedadad_data"
enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1
enumFromString ( RestartType ) : converted "unknown" to "RestartUnknown" , enum value -1
New transaction with tid "/154_eacabaca_data"
New transaction with tid "/155_bbbbedcd_data"
removing transaction from pool :  "/153_abedadad_data"
removing transaction from pool :  "/154_eacabaca_data"
0;0removing transaction from pool :  "/155_bbbbedcd_data"

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[jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password
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