muon no longer asking for authentication (and failing)

[George Dvorak]

I was writing a reply when kablooy my system blew up. What I wanted to say
was that apparently the lock file gets created and acquires a date and
time. After that the date and time does not change.

I was having problems that were fixed when I


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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