pkexec does not find any authentication agent
Submitted by Alberto Salvia Novella
Assigned to David Zeuthen @david
Description
I am using xubuntu, but I am pretty sure that other variants are affected too.
My problem started with being unable to start synaptic from the menu. So far, I have found out that synaptic is started with pkexec.
When I test starting pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic in a terminal, it asks for the password in text mode.
With another test pkexec --disable-internal-agent /usr/sbin/synaptic in the terminal, it says it has not found any authentication agent.
I have two AMD64 PC's and a i386 laptop. The problem occurs on one of the PC's and the laptop. Comparing the /etc directory trees of the PC's showed many differences, but I could not find anything suspicious about the polycikit configuration.
For the moment, using gksu instead of pkexec is a workaround.
Thanks and Regards, Markus
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: policykit-1 0.104-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 8 17:05:34 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120330) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: policykit-1 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)