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

[Dan]

This may be a duplicate of bug 1660100.

However, I'm also suffering from the same issue. But I'd like to add
that, after trying to edit any of the entries and clicking "OK" in the
dialog that shows up, the password prompts shows up. After we input the
password, the ability to check/uncheck entries in the "Other Software"
tab becomes possible.

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Title:
  Software & Updates application does not permit changes on the "Other
  Software" tab

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  
  On the "Other Software" tab, I am unable to select "Canonical Partners".
  Similarly, the other checkboxes on the "Other Software" can not be clicked.
  Clicking on a checkbox has no effect, and a dialog requesting the admin password is not presented.

  However, activating or deactivating checkboxes on other tabs causes an
  authorization dialog to be presented to the user.

  I experience this bug in an an Xorg session.

  sources.list and sources.list.d have the following permissions:
  -rw-r--r--   1 root root  2897 Oct 26 22:35 sources.list
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct 26 21:29 sources.list.d

  All files in sources.list.d have the following permissions as this example:
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  189 Oct 25 21:50 google-chrome.list

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 17.10
  Release:	17.10

  $ apt-cache policy software-properties-gtk
  software-properties-gtk:
    Installed: 0.96.24.17
    Candidate: 0.96.24.17
    Version table:
   *** 0.96.24.17 500
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.96.24.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct 26 22:45:09 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-26 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10.0 2017.10.25 amd64 "Custom Artful Aardvark"
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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