[Touch-packages] [Bug 1727908] Re: Software & Updates application does not permit changes on the "Other Software" tab

2018-12-07 Thread Harald H.
Can confirm that this is reproducible with the standard Ubuntu session in 18.04.01 and 18.10, tested both with the vanilla install with no updates and also fully updated. However, notice a few things: - If you repeatedly click the checkbox it will sometimes trigger the authentication window - The

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1759558] [NEW] Unchecking or checkmarking sources in Software & Updates are not always possible

2018-03-28 Thread Harald H.
Public bug reported: Reproduce: - Open "Software & Updates" - Select the tab "Ubuntu Software" - Click on one of the checkboxes under "Installable from CD-ROM/DVD" - If you are asked for authentication, cancel out of the window and try clicking on the checkbox again Observe that you are not alwa

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1750453] [NEW] Apt does not ask for authentication unless sudo is specified

2018-02-19 Thread Harald H.
Public bug reported: If a user try to install for example Gimp with "apt install gimp" (without sudo) he will be met with these errors: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? If

[Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2016-10-13 Thread Harald H.
Occured here today. Running this simple command to remove old kernels and unused packages worked around the issue: sudo apt-get autoremove --purge Alternatively, and to be able to remove even manually installed kernels, you could use: sudo purge-old-kernels To be able to use purge-old-kernels