This bug hit me with a fresh installation of Ubuntu Hardy and 2 things were noticeable:
1. USB volumes did not automount (that includes iPods and stuff) 2. all the *-admin utilities would not allow me to authenticate. The button was just gray-out. To fix this I did: 1. start in single-user-mode 2. dpkg --force-all -P policykit-gnome 3. mv /var/lib/PolicyKit/user-haldaemon.auths /root 4. rm -fr /var/lib/PolicyKit/ 5. apt-get --reinstall install policykit-gnome consolekit 6. mv /root/user-haldaemon.auths /var/lib/PolicyKit/ 7. make sure /etc/hosts matches my hostname correctly for 127.0.x.x IP 8. make sure that the content of /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf was: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- --> <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd"> <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> <config version="0.1"> <match user="root"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <define_admin_auth group="admin"/> </config> After this everything worked fine. Hopefully this will help somebody out there. And please make sure this does not happen as this is very annoying and hard to troubleshoot. -- 'Unlock' button in admin utilities greyed out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231246 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