I recently installed 2 machines with Xubuntu 15.10 and I see this issue very often, but not *always* on one of them (a desktop PC) and never on the other (a laptop).
On the desktop machine, I simply hover over the dialog and hold my ESC key down until it eventually goes away. Like another responder said, it seems to be time dependent and stores the events while the machine is locked. Typically takes a few seconds (so probably 30-40 cancellations of the dialog) but the most recent one took over a minute (I'd estimate the dialog re-appeared a couple of hundred times at least) although the machine wasn't locked for significantly longer than before. Once it disappears for the last time, it seems to stay away until the next time the machine is locked/unlocked. It's parent process is the xfce-session (in my case) so it's not obvious what is actually triggering it to appear. Entering the password seemingly makes no difference to the persistent nature of the dialog. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1-gnome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512002 Title: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data" Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring. This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1512002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
