muon no longer asking for authentication (and failing)

[George Dvorak]

Well, again as I was typing my screen disappeared and a partial message was
sent.

Deleting the lock file cured my problem. Looking at the file with a hex
editor does not reveal anything that I can understand.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:20 PM, George Dvorak <gldvorak at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was writing a reply when kablooy my system blew up. What I wanted to say
> was that apparently the lock file gets created and acquires a date and
> time. After that the date and time does not change.
>
> I was having problems that were fixed when I
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 22 2014, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Jun 21 2014, George Dvorak <gldvorak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <
>> robert at capuchin.co.uk>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Fri, Jun 20 2014, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem
>> occurring
>> >>> > on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are upgrades,
>> if I
>> >>> > view them and attempt to upgrade I no longer get asked for
>> >>> > authentication (my password) and then the upgrade fails because it
>> >>> > doesn't have (sudo) permissions :-(
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I'm not aware of changing anything, has something else changed, is
>> >>> > anyone else seeing this?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Before this change a dialog used to pop up asking for my password, I
>> >>> > entered it and the update was done. For the moment I'm doing command
>> >>> > line `sudo apt-get upgrade`..
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04
>> >>>
>> >> I was having similar problems and I went to /var/cache/apt/archives/
>> and
>> >> deleted the lock file and now all is well. Muon just gave up. Synaptic
>> >> pointed me at the problem. I wish that Kubuntu/KDE supported Synaptic
>> >> rather than their packages that do not work as well.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thanks for this suggestion I see I also have a
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
>> > file - dated Aug 22 2012 - maybe muon has only now started noticing it?
>> I'm
>> > deleting it and will see if the next update runs without problem!
>> >
>>
>> And just to log the fact that without the lock file (I've just double
>> checked to ensure it hasn't reappeared after deleting it yesterday) the
>> latest update also fails with muon with the libreoffice updates.
>>
>> Running muon from the command line I see (obv without [gk]sudo):
>>
>> Couldn't find the releasechecker script
>> /usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
>> found error while replying
>> QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
>> found error while replying
>> QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
>> found error while replying
>> QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied", "")
>> auth error reply!
>>
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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