[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#853165: Synaptic fails to start; do not show pop-up for root password)

[kznrsa]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-17
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Could not start synaptic via the LXDE menu (nothing happens); try to
start it from the command line using:
$ synaptic-pkexec
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ===
Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager
Authenticating as: root
Password:
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.

Others authentication problems exist:
when trying to mount an internal partition from pcmanfm/lxde, a error
message is displayed "not authorized to perform operation" (should ask
for the root password).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (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                   1.10.14-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-8
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.2-2
ii  libpam-systemd         232-14
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-17

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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