[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#842184: policykit-1: synaptic-pkexec no more work

[Guy Rouger]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-16
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
launch Synaptic
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
using menu
   * What was the outcome of this action?
in command line
debian:~$ synaptic-pkexec
..........
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Display of authentification box
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.10.12-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.1-1
ii  libpam-systemd         231-9
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-16
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-16
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-16

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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