Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-10-02 Thread Leo Milano
On Friday 02 October 2009, Ladislav Bonita wrote: > Happens to me on almost fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10 beta in vmware virtual > machine. > Accessing "Add and remove software" through systemsettings, and trying to > click "refresh" in "software updates" it gives me error dialog "You do not > h

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-09-22 Thread James Westby
On Tue Sep 22 10:14:09 UTC 2009 Steve Kroon wrote: > Perhaps that component doesn't call the gnome stuff > if it's not invoked from within kpackagekit? I don't really see how that is possible. If it is using the kde one then it should be equally as happy using the GNOME one. Thanks, James -- [

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-09-22 Thread James Westby
On Tue Sep 22 06:06:19 UTC 2009 Steve Kroon wrote: > This indicates a dependency on policykit-kde OR policykit-gnome. And > apparently I do have policykit-gnome installed (it's marked for Automatic > installation): Ah, spotted. That means you should have been getting the GNOME prompt at least. Do

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-09-21 Thread James Westby
On Mon Sep 21 07:44:15 UTC 2009 Steve Kroon wrote: > Yes. I installed policykit-kde, and now an authentication pop-up > appears. Good. I am curious how you didn't have policykit-kde installed given that kpackagekit depends on it? Thanks, James -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-09-17 Thread James Westby
On Thu Sep 17 15:15:56 UTC 2009 Steve Kroon wrote: > 1) Policykit-kde is not installed, it seems: Ok, if you install that package does the problem go away? Thanks, James -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notifi

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-09-17 Thread James Westby
On Thu Sep 17 14:03:13 UTC 2009 Steve Kroon wrote: > 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 thr

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-07-04 Thread James Westby
Leo Milano wrote: > Surprise, the bug is _still_ gone after downgrading those packages (and > I am sure they were downgraded). In fact, I rebooted after trying again, > because I was afraid there could be some environment variable still > hanging from your new packages. > > I also tried to to purg

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-07-04 Thread James Westby
Leo Milano wrote: > Arrg, I hate to say this (as weird as it sounds) but it's still fixed > with the jw4 packages That's not necessarily a bad thing :-) Could you please verify that the bug comes back if you force downgrade to the jaunty packages? sudo aptitude install libpolkit-dbus2=0.9-2ubu

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-07-03 Thread James Westby
Leo Milano wrote: > @James: FIXED! Your packages simply fixed it here: > > * I added you ppa @ my sources.list > * Updated from Synaptic, and I got the Icon from Update Notifier on my sys > tray > * Of course, these updates were your packages, and Update Notifier failed to > upgrade (I just did

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-04-29 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:00 +, m4v wrote: > > polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update > > for me it just hangs there without showing any output, after several > minutes it will output > > Attempting to obtain authorization for > org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update.

Re: [Bug 353278] Re: [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password

2009-04-29 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 06:23 +, d2globalinc wrote: > Having same issue - will not prompt for password - just comes back with > Failed message in gui.. Output from terminal is: Select user: Failed to > obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update. > Authentification error