@Leo, James I installed the policykit from James' PPA, and the bug is still there (i.e. update-notifier tells me I don't have privileges, rather than prompting for username and password.
However, I found out that when I run update-notifier-kde on the command- line, at the stage where I usually get this error message, there is a prompt for user information on the command line. Filling that in works, and the upgrade goes through. Here's a transcript: skr...@mania:~$ update-notifier-kde 9;6kcmshell(14690) KpkTransactionBar::setBehaviors: Hide! 1 New transaction with tid "/151_abdcacac_data" New transaction with tid "/152_deaabdbc_data" removing transaction from pool : "/151_abdcacac_data" removing transaction from pool : "/152_deaabdbc_data" 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. New transaction with tid "/153_abedadad_data" enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1 enumFromString ( RestartType ) : converted "unknown" to "RestartUnknown" , enum value -1 New transaction with tid "/154_eacabaca_data" New transaction with tid "/155_bbbbedcd_data" removing transaction from pool : "/153_abedadad_data" removing transaction from pool : "/154_eacabaca_data" 0;0removing transaction from pool : "/155_bbbbedcd_data" -- [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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
