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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 01 novembre 2009 à 15:45 -0500, Jody Bruchon a écrit : 
> 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.

Please don’t try to second-guess which package is responsible for what,
just leave that for those who understand how things work. Instead, you
should explain clearly: 
      * what you are trying to do; 
      * what exact actions you are carrying out; 
      * which of them fail; 
      * the error messages you are seeing.

Since you also have trouble with network-manager (which has no
relationship whatsoever to system-tools-backends), it looks more like a
consolekit problem than anything related to gnome-system-tools. What is
the output of the "ck-list-sessions" command?

Cheers, 
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
: :' :
`. `'   “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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