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

[Matías Castillo Felmer]

Package: pkexec
Followup-For: Bug #853165

Dear Maintainer,


    * What led up to the situation?
         I don't know what led to the situation, but it was working a 
few months
ago. The problem seems to be happening randomly to some people, as a 
search on
the net shows.
    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or 
ineffective)?
         I tried a few things that people suggest without success, like
reinstalling related packages:
         sudo  apt install --reinstall gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libpolkit-agent-1-0
policykit-1-gnome

         I don't know where do I read the following but I confirmed it with
chatgpt. The user needs to be in sudo or admin group so that pkexec works.

         So I checked in which groups my user was:
         $ groups
         <$USER here> dialout plugdev users docker libvirt libvirt-qemu

         Then I added my user to sudo with:
         $ sudo usermod -aG sudo $USER

         I don't know if a reboot or a logout/login is need but, it is 
working
now.

    * What was the outcome of this action?
         pkexec is showing the dialog requesting for the root password.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.19-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pkexec depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.41-6
ii  libglib2.0-0t64        2.84.0-2
ii  libpam0g               1.7.0-3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    126-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  126-2
ii  polkitd                126-2

pkexec recommends no packages.

pkexec suggests no packages.

Versions of packages pkexec is related to:
pn  elogind         <none>
pn  libpam-elogind  <none>
ii  libpam-systemd  257.4-3
ii  systemd         257.4-3

-- no debconf information

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:02:21 +0100 kznrsa <kznrsa at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Package: policykit-1
 > Version: 0.105-17
 > Severity: important
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
 > appropriate ***
 >
 > * 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?
 >
 > *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
 >
 >
 > -- 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.
 >