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

[Jesse Sweetland]

I got linked here from another bug marked as a duplicate of this one.  I
don't know of  a better place to report this--if there is, please let me
know...

I've been running Kubuntu Lucid since Beta 1 and I think in that
distribution policykit-1-kde wasn't ready yet ... it came in some later
update.  I've installed and re-installed it and the base policykit-1
package and I experience the same results.  (In fact, I did a purge on
policykit-1-kde, which removed several hundred packages including kde-
workspace-bin.  I immediately re-installed the affected packages and
rebooted--so far so good.  Still experiencing the same behavior with
respect to kpackagekit.)

Symptoms are this:
 - policykit-1 is installed, as are policykit-1-kde and policykit-1-gnome
 - polkitd is running
 - polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 is running
 - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gnome-org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.AuthenticationAgent.service does not exist
 - /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists
 - /etc/xdg/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop exists
 - ~/.config/autostart/ is empty
 - polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update outputs the following and immediate returns with exit status 1:

Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.
polkit-grant-helper: given auth type (1 -> no) is bogus
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.

 - There is nothing in /var/log/auth.log related to this and nothing that I can see in .xsession-errors.
 - I do not even get the Gnome authentication dialog

If I run "kdesudo kpackagekit" then I can install packages without being
prompted for a password.  Without kdesudo it says "Waiting for
Authentication" and times out after 5 minutes or so with a "Failed to
authenticate" message.  I am also unable to update the clock.

I don't get prompted for a password at all to apply updates and updates
install without a problem.  I do get prompted for a password when
running the file sharing configuration and in a few other places.

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[jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password
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