[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

[James Westby]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:06:07 -0000, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan at club.fr> wrote:
> OK, so that's just the result of a limitation in ConsoleKit. This is a
> major problem, but that's more a feature request than a bug.
> 
> If you want, please open a report against the consolekit package - but I
> don't think that will really help improve things, sadly. I'm closing
> this bug because there has been much noise when trying to debug. Opening
> a clear report with the request in the description will be better for
> everybody.

There is already a bug filed against consolekit about this issue. I
don't have the number to hand right now.

Thanks,

James

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PolicyKit authentication always fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598909
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Status in “policykit-1” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: system-tools-backends


I am running lucid with system-tools-backends at 2.9.4 and am seeing errors trying to run any of:
Time and Date
Users and Groups

example:
$ users-admin

(users-admin:12353): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
$ gksu users-admin
(users-admin:12389): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
$ gksudo users-admin
(users-admin:12413): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

I checked and /etc/groups did not appear to be overwritten, but the commands still do not work either from the menu or the command-line.

# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS \n \l

# uname -m
x86_64

# apt-show-versions gnome-system-tools system-tools-backends
gnome-system-tools/lucid uptodate 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
system-tools-backends/lucid uptodate 2.9.4-0ubuntu1

Don't know if any of this is related but here is messagebus group related info from /etc/group and /etc/passwd:

# grep messagebus /etc/group
messagebus:x:108:
# grep 108 /etc/group
messagebus:x:108:
# grep 108 /etc/passwd
messagebus:x:102:108::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
haldaemon:x:108:115:Hardware abstraction layer,,,:/var/run/hald:/bin/false


# apt-cache policy system-tools-backends gnome-system-tools
system-tools-backends:
  Installed: 2.9.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.9.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.9.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gnome-system-tools:
  Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


# apt-get install --reinstall system-tools-backends gnome-system-tools

Reinstalled these packages but it made no difference at all, still have the error.