Can't run apps requiring elevated privileges on artful

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 25.10.2017, 08:50 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> On 25 October 2017 at 07:42, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all!
> > 
> > Have you noticed this: On a clean artful install, running an app
> > that will
> > require elevated privileges (like Synapic) won't work. You get the
> > pop-up
> > asking for your password, you enter it, then nothing happens.
> Are you using Wayland? This should not be the default I believe
> (unless something has changed).

wayland is the default in the artful desktop and this behaviour is
known (and wanted) by upstream [1]. the apps need to be fixed to use
policykit before 18.04 ... if there is no bug yet for the app you are
using, please file one...

ciao
	oli

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451
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