[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-03-19 Thread Darren Davison
> How do I disable the message notification panel? right click the indicator icons in the panel and click "remove" in the pop-up menu. Let us know if it works for you -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1-gnome in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-05 Thread Darren Davison
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 respond

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-06 Thread Darren Davison
I notice one of the comments on the forum issue (linked in comment #3) mentions that the symptoms are apparent after switching users and switching back. This is also the same for me on the desktop box where 2 people are almost permanently logged in with one or both having a locked session. Only s

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-18 Thread Darren Davison
>From my logs (summarized by logwatch)... polkitd(authority=local): message repeated 473 times: [ Operator of unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data for system-bus-name::1.48 [] (owned by unix-user:darren)]: 1 Time(s)

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-20 Thread Darren Davison
I'm using Xubuntu, yes. -- 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

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-12-07 Thread Darren Davison
I think the advice to disable the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 to fix this is akin to advising someone to take the batteries out of their smoke alarms to stop the annoying noise. One of the other links in there has a more plausible angle though, which is that it is to do with the message no

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-01-25 Thread Darren Davison
I'm pretty sure the message notification panel is to blame. I ran with it disabled for several days a few weeks ago and I wasn't plagued by this dialog on a single occasion. Unfortunately, though I can do without the notifications, I can't do without the volume control and for some bizarre reason