Re: Bug#623258: polkit-kde: Authentication fails with correct root password

Control: reassign -1 polkit-kde-agent-1

Hi!

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 19:29:45 +0100, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> El 2011-04-18 a las 21:26 +0300, Alex Dănilă escribió:
> > Package: polkit-kde-1 Version: 0.95.1-2+b1 Severity: important
> > File: polkit-kde
> 
> > The KDE policy kit dialogue fails to authenticate even if I give
> > it the correct root password. This reproduces everytime, since
> > some time ago and makes saving NM passwords impossible.
> 
> > Steps to Reproduce:
> > Start nm-applet, right click on its applet to get a menu, choose
> > "edit connections". Go to wireless tab, choose "Add" and add
> > some data, check the "Available to all users" box and try to
> > save.
> 
> > Two more more bugs are related to this:
> > 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-gnome/+bug/500354
> > This seems exactly the same, but for the GNOME counter part.
> 
> > 2.https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271147 Opened by me,
> > because the same dialogue fails to tell what it wants.
> 
> Sorry that it took so long to get back to you. I think that this
> issue is no longer there, probably since polkit-kde-1 was migrated
> to kf5. In any case, can you please check if this is solved for you?

It seems the polkit-kde-1 package got renamed to polkit-kde-agent-1 and
the transitional package then dropped. Reassigning it to an existing
package. Not sure whether this issue is still valid or not, up to the
maintainers to decide/deal-with.

Thanks,
Guillem