Bug 557669 - Package kit no longer accepts root authentication
Summary: Package kit no longer accepts root authentication
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: polkit
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
urgent
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-22 06:30 UTC by Jussi Eloranta
Modified: 2010-01-25 08:55 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-01-25 08:55:39 UTC
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Description Jussi Eloranta 2010-01-22 06:30:19 UTC
Description of problem:

After updating my FC12 box on Jan 21, PackageKit no longer gives (for a normal user) the authentication dialog where one should enter the root password. It just bluntly says that authentication was failed and it is not possible to install anything (unless one goes to command line/root & yum). I am not sure if this is a PackageKit problem though, running, for example, System -> Administration -> Firewall also fails to start complaining Error: "org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthorizedException.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth: "

So this is probably a problem with all applications requiring root authentication.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2010-01-25 05:03:37 UTC
Is polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 running in your session ?

Comment 2 Jussi Eloranta 2010-01-25 06:28:22 UTC
It was not and I noticed that it had been somehow disabled from the startup applications. No idea how that happened but since I don't see much "me too" comments here, I suspect this is something specific to me...

I re-enabled it and now authentication works correctly.


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