muon no longer asking for authentication (and failing)

[Robert Marshall]

On Sun, Jun 22 2014, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 21 2014, George Dvorak <gldvorak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thanks for this suggestion I see I also have a /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
> file - dated Aug 22 2012 - maybe muon has only now started noticing it? I'm
> deleting it and will see if the next update runs without problem!
>

And just to log the fact that without the lock file (I've just double
checked to ensure it hasn't reappeared after deleting it yesterday) the
latest update also fails with muon with the libreoffice updates.

Running muon from the command line I see (obv without [gk]sudo):

Couldn't find the releasechecker script 
/usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "") 
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "") 
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied", "") 
auth error reply! 


Robert