Bug#847442: gnome-software says 'Failed to obtain authentication.'
Stephen Paul Weber
singpolyma at singpolyma.net
Sun May 24 03:55:26 BST 2020
Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.30.6-5
Followup-For: Bug #847442
Dear Maintainer,
I believe I have the same issue. After installing `gnome-software` when I try
to install anything it does not prompt for password and simply says "you do not
have permission to install software".
I am not running under a full GNOME environment, but nevertheless policykit and
packagekit and dbus are running, if that is relevant.
Running gnome-software as root from a terminal works, but using the menu
launcher does not, and of course if I run it as root then other features are
not quite right (such as the "launch" button on installed applications).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii appstream 0.12.5-1
ii apt-config-icons 0.12.5-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.1-2
ii gnome-software-common 3.30.6-5
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1
ii libappstream-glib8 0.7.14-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libfwupd2 1.2.5-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii libgnome-desktop-3-17 3.30.2.1-2
ii libgspell-1-1 1.6.1-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libgtk3-perl 0.034-2
ii libgudev-1.0-0 232-2
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.12-5
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-25
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.7-1
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.64.2-2
ii packagekit 1.1.12-5
ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2
Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii fwupd 1.2.5-2
Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none>
-- no debconf information
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