Bug#553672: system-tools-backends: *-admin apps report "You are not allowed access to the system configuration"

[Jody Bruchon]

Package: system-tools-backends
Version: 2.8.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After upgrading from Debian stable "lenny" to testing "squeeze" the *-admin tools from gnome-system-tools always fail to start under the normal user account.  I have tried force-removal and reinstall, as well as reinstalling gksu and other apps to no avail.  gnome-network-manager also fails because of this and causes Epiphany to fall into "work offline" mode by default.  I have had this breakage occur on more than one machine with "squeeze" and the only common thread has been manipulating packages.  What little information I can find on this problem indicates that while it manifests most readily in gnome-system-tools failures, this package is apparently the actual source of the problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages system-tools-backends depends on:
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                        2.9-25      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.2-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnet-dbus-perl             0.33.6-1+b1 Extension for the DBus bindings
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.94-4      PolicyKit Authorization API

system-tools-backends recommends no packages.

system-tools-backends suggests no packages.

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