muon no longer asking for authentication (and failing)

[George Dvorak]

I was having similar problems and I went to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and
deleted the lock file and now all is well. Muon just gave up. Synaptic
pointed me at the problem. I wish that Kubuntu/KDE supported Synaptic
rather than their packages that do not work as well.


How do I switch Firefox from top posting?


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20 2014, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem occurring
> > on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are upgrades, if I
> > view them and attempt to upgrade I no longer get asked for
> > authentication (my password) and then the upgrade fails because it
> > doesn't have (sudo) permissions :-(
> >
> > I'm not aware of changing anything, has something else changed, is
> > anyone else seeing this?
> >
> > Before this change a dialog used to pop up asking for my password, I
> > entered it and the update was done. For the moment I'm doing command
> > line `sudo apt-get upgrade`..
> >
>
> Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04
>
> Robert
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