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 purge all policiykit packages from Synaptic, and > reinstall the ones from the ubuntu repos, because I have the feeling > that your new packages might have left some residual config files > somewhere that make it work even with the older packages. But too many > things depend on policikit, purging policykit would wipe most of my > install. > > I see if I can force a purge from the command line, just the four > packages you mentioned (without checking for dependencies). I am sure > one of the 500 flags for apt-get does that :-) Maybe you know exactly > and you are around :-)
You can do --force-depends, but I don't think that's necessary. Your findings suggest that just re-installing may fix the issue. Can anyone else confirm that reinstalling the policykit-related packages fixes the issue? Thanks, James -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to policykit-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
