The polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
doesn't autostart while it has correct /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
file with this content
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Comment=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Exec=/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;Unity;
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=polkit-gnome-1
The user doesn't have a ~/.config/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
file
This breaks synaptic-pkexec and other tools that rely on policykit.
Problem seems similar to this, but this post is without resolution.
Launching process manually works and functionality is restored for that session or until the terminal used to launch the process manually is closed.
Here are dpkg.log and apt history.log
/var/log/apt/history.log*
and/var/log/dpkg.log*
)? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Aug 15 '16 at 23:00