[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
Ah, sorry, I didn't know you weren't using GNOME. The gnome-settings- daemon part is not essential at all: the idea was only to use the PID of a process that is known to be running - you can use any program name here. The polkitd log contains the explanation to your problem: ** (polkitd:1592): DEBUG: subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (local=1 active=0) Your session is not considered as active. Are you working over VNC or another remote desktop system? This is the usual cause of this issue, there's a bug 187585 about that. So the current bug is that users-admin doesn't report correctly when authentication couldn't be obtained. The rest is a problem elsewhere. It shouldn't be hard to fix at all, would you try to write a patch? Else I'll try to do it myself, but I'm not making any promise. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium = Low ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Triaged ** Summary changed: - users-admin edit dialogs don't show up + users-admin doesn't report error when PolicyKit authentication fails -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin doesn't report error when PolicyKit authentication fails -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
The current user, who happens to be the only user on that system, *is* shown in the list, and is selected. The Add, Delete, and Advanced Settings buttons don't work, and, as I neglected to mention, the Change... buttons for the user's full name and account type don't work either. But the Change... button for the user's password does work--it brings up the Change User Password window, and I am able to change the user's password. I apologize for having forgotten to mention that, as it is probably rather important. I'm attaching two screenshots. Should I still create a second user? ** Attachment added: users-admin on launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/685596/+attachment/1756685/+files/users-admin.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
** Attachment added: users-admin changing a password https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/685596/+attachment/1756686/+files/users-admin-change-password.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
So it sounds like a PolicyKit issue. Please run sudo killall polkitd; sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd start users-admin, and click on a button that doesn't work. Then please attach the output here. What happens if you run export PID=`pidof gnome-settings-daemon` pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set --allow-user-interaction --process $PID Also, do you get an error message if you wait for a few minutes without closing users-admin, after clicking on a button? (No need to create a new user if the current one is shown.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
I ran users-admin from a console, clicked Add, Delete, and Advanced Settings and waited five minutes. During that time, no messages were printed to the command line. I checked that before restarting polkitd and inspecting its output -- did you want me to check and see if polkitd produces additional debug messages during that time, too? I'm attaching the output of polkitd. For reference, the last message printed before I started users-admin was: ** (polkitd:1592): DEBUG: Added authentication agent for unix- session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 at name :1.14 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8 And the Exiting with code 0 message did not occur during the execution of users-admin; that was from when I terminated polkitd with Ctrl+C after quitting users-admin. As for running pkcheck on the running instance of gnome-settings-daemon ...gnome-settings-daemon is not running (or even installed) on this system. Would that be the cause of the problem? This is a Lubuntu Natty system created by installing lubuntu-desktop on top of a command-line system installed from the Natty Alpha Alternate Install CD, which is probably why it doesn't have gnome-settings-daemon (it doesn't have most components of GNOME). I didn't figure that was the problem, because I use a Lubuntu desktop on my Maverick amd64 system, and that runs users-admin without any problems. gnome-settings-daemon is installed on that system (because I also have ubuntu-desktop installed there), but it is not running. ** Attachment added: output of sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/685596/+attachment/1756725/+files/polkitd.out -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
For clarification: While capturing the output of polkitd, I clicked the Add button once, quit users-admin, and then quit polkitd (Ctrl+C). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 685596] Re: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up
So, I installed gnome-settings-daemon and ran it, and the problem persisted. Furthermore, I have another i386 Natty system that runs a full Ubuntu desktop. On that other system, users-admin works without problems, and gnome-settings-daemon is installed and runs all the time. So I tried killing gnome-settings-daemon on that other system, and users-admin continued to work without problems. But installing and running gnome-settings-daemon did enable me to complete your instructions. I ran: export PID=`pidof gnome-settings-daemon` pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set --allow-user-interaction --process $PID The output was Not authorized. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685596 Title: users-admin edit dialogs don't show up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
