Re: [Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-23 Thread Rik Mills
On 23/09/17 18:01, Øystein Alværvik wrote: > Upon a reinstall, this bug no longer occurs (I am the original bug > reporter). I'm not sure what caused it. > Ok. Thanks for updating us with that info. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-23 Thread dino99
** Changed in: muon (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714820 Title: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install To manage

[Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-23 Thread Øystein Alværvik
Upon a reinstall, this bug no longer occurs (I am the original bug reporter). I'm not sure what caused it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714820 Title: Muon refuses to elevate to

Re: [Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-04 Thread Rik Mills
On 04/09/17 21:26, Carlo Vanini wrote: > Sorry, but I have no idea. A similar bug was reported some time ago by > Rick Mills https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382611 in Neon and > Artful, but I cannot reproduce it. I can, even now on that bug. I seem to recall Harald Sitter commenting on a

[Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-04 Thread Carlo Vanini
Sorry, but I have no idea. A similar bug was reported some time ago by Rick Mills https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382611 in Neon and Artful, but I cannot reproduce it. The authentication is handled by PolicyKit (PolkitQt1). It has it's own configuration on how to authenticate and authorize

[Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-03 Thread Clive Johnston
I can't replicate this on my system and can only assume that the authentication window is not being displayed or becoming focused to the front of the active windows. I have sub'ed the maintainer of the program to this report, maybe he will know what could be causing it to do that. -- You

[Bug 1714820] Re: Muon refuses to elevate to superuser for package install

2017-09-03 Thread Rik Mills
This works fine in the daily build for me and my running install of artful. The message will be displayed if you do not complete an authorisation dialogue when it is show, and it times out. Perhaps you have a window manger rule/placement setting etc, so the authorisation box was there, but you