Can we raise the importance please? It is quite essential to let unprivileged users run certain commands, even if there is not GUI.
Also, it is very confusing when everything is configured correctly, plus the password is correct, and then to get the message "Not authorized", "This incident has been reported." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1821415 Title: pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment Status in PolicyKit: New Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as the root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting that information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not in a non-graphical one. N.B. you first need to create a /var/log/plymouth-debug.log file for the plymouth apport package hook to actually trigger this. ubuntu@disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth *** Collecting problem information The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the application. This might take a few minutes. ..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info === Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu) Password: .... polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. Subsequently, bug reports from servers will contain less information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/policykit-1/+bug/1821415/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
