OK. I reproduced the bug, and as with others, I get this error message: Authentication as an administrative user is required. The following users qualify as administrative users: skroon Select user: Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. Authentification error : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply : Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Nothing was output to my ~/.xsession-errors , however. I also ran polkit-auth as below, which didn't seem to have any problem: skr...@mania:~$ polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. Authentication as an administrative user is required. The following users qualify as administrative users: skroon Select user: skroon Password: Keep this privilege for the session or always? [no/session/always]? no Successfully obtained the authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. Finally, this problem went away for some reason on my second try yesterday, but has since come back. Not sure why. @James: when adding your repositories above and running apt-get update, I get the following at the end: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EB6DA76C6591493A W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems (Ironically, it's recommending running the currently running program to fix the problem). I'm hesitant to continue before sorting these warnings out. -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to policykit-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
