muon no longer asking for authentication (and failing)

Post by Robert Marshall
Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem occurring
on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are upgrades, if I
view them and attempt to upgrade I no longer get asked for
authentication (my password) and then the upgrade fails because it
doesn't have (sudo) permissions :-(
I'm not aware of changing anything, has something else changed, is
anyone else seeing this?
Before this change a dialog used to pop up asking for my password, I
entered it and the update was done. For the moment I'm doing command
line `sudo apt-get upgrade`..

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04

Robert

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George Dvorak

2014-06-21 22:41:18 UTC

I was having similar problems and I went to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and
deleted the lock file and now all is well. Muon just gave up. Synaptic
pointed me at the problem. I wish that Kubuntu/KDE supported Synaptic
rather than their packages that do not work as well.

How do I switch Firefox from top posting?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04
Robert
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Stephen Morris

2014-06-22 00:28:41 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
I was having similar problems and I went to /var/cache/apt/archives/
and deleted the lock file and now all is well. Muon just gave up.
Synaptic pointed me at the problem. I wish that Kubuntu/KDE supported
Synaptic rather than their packages that do not work as well.
How do I switch Firefox from top posting?

Hi George,
As far as I am aware Synaptic runs fine in KDE, or it did the last
time I used it, which was some time ago though.

I don't use Firefox for mails, I use thunderbird, which is
configured to top post as well, but I just cursor down the page to the
area I want to input in, and press Enter which allows me to start typing
at that point. I would assume Firefox is no different.

regards,
Steve

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall
On Fri, Jun 20 2014, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk

Post by Robert Marshall
Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem

occurring

Post by Robert Marshall
on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are

upgrades, if I

Post by Robert Marshall
view them and attempt to upgrade I no longer get asked for
authentication (my password) and then the upgrade fails because it
doesn't have (sudo) permissions :-(
I'm not aware of changing anything, has something else changed, is
anyone else seeing this?
Before this change a dialog used to pop up asking for my password, I
entered it and the update was done. For the moment I'm doing command
line `sudo apt-get upgrade`..

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04
Robert
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Ralf Mardorf

2014-06-22 06:05:42 UTC

Post by Stephen Morris
As far as I am aware Synaptic runs fine in KDE

It does, I seldom use Kubuntu, but when I use it, I usually prefer
Synaptic over command line.

Ralf Mardorf

2014-06-22 06:03:05 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
How do I switch Firefox from top posting?

Firefox isn't the culprit, ask gmail.com how to set up their web thingy.

Robert Marshall

2014-06-22 15:20:54 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04

Thanks for this suggestion I see I also have a /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
file - dated Aug 22 2012 - maybe muon has only now started noticing it? I'm
deleting it and will see if the next update runs without problem!

Robert

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George Dvorak

2014-06-23 05:29:21 UTC

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Billie Walsh

2014-06-23 11:53:49 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Robert Marshall

I don't know what the reply was supposed to have been, but.............

KDE package management sucks. The first thing I do on a new install is
fire up a terminal and install synaptic. You have to do it in a terminal
because, in my experience, KDE package handlers can't find it. Synaptic
just works.

When update manager tells me I have "security updates available" I fire
up synaptic to get them.

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Ralf Mardorf

2014-06-23 12:04:52 UTC

The first thing I do on a new install is fire up a terminal and
install synaptic.

Synaptic is a very good GUI, the only alternatives are ncurses and pure
command line. Aptitude and apt(-get) are good too. What to use depends
to the OP's needs. For Debian based disrtos such as the *buntus, I
wouldn't use anything else, than Synaptic, aptitude or apt(-get), an
sure, dpkg ;). I prefer the DEB package management over the RPM
management, but my favourite is the Arch Linux pacman way.

Robert Marshall

2014-06-23 16:53:07 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04

And just to log the fact that without the lock file (I've just double
checked to ensure it hasn't reappeared after deleting it yesterday) the
latest update also fails with muon with the libreoffice updates.

Running muon from the command line I see (obv without [gk]sudo):

Couldn't find the releasechecker script
/usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied", "")
auth error reply!

Robert

George Dvorak

2014-06-24 00:20:10 UTC

I was writing a reply when kablooy my system blew up. What I wanted to say
was that apparently the lock file gets created and acquires a date and
time. After that the date and time does not change.

I was having problems that were fixed when I

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <

robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Post by Robert Marshall
Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem

occurring

Post by Robert Marshall
on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are upgrades,

if I

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04

Thanks for this suggestion I see I also have a

/var/cache/apt/archives/lock

Post by Robert Marshall
file - dated Aug 22 2012 - maybe muon has only now started noticing it?

I'm

Post by Robert Marshall
deleting it and will see if the next update runs without problem!

And just to log the fact that without the lock file (I've just double
checked to ensure it hasn't reappeared after deleting it yesterday) the
latest update also fails with muon with the libreoffice updates.
Couldn't find the releasechecker script
/usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied", "")
auth error reply!
Robert
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George Dvorak

2014-06-24 00:24:48 UTC

Well, again as I was typing my screen disappeared and a partial message was
sent.

Deleting the lock file cured my problem. Looking at the file with a hex
editor does not reveal anything that I can understand.

Post by George Dvorak
I was writing a reply when kablooy my system blew up. What I wanted to say
was that apparently the lock file gets created and acquires a date and
time. After that the date and time does not change.
I was having problems that were fixed when I
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <

robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Post by Robert Marshall
Starting with the update to apt of this week (and the problem

occurring

Post by Robert Marshall
on that update) when muon/apper informs me that there are upgrades,

if I

Arrgh! should have added this is with 14.04

I was having similar problems and I went to /var/cache/apt/archives/

and

Post by George Dvorak
deleted the lock file and now all is well. Muon just gave up. Synaptic
pointed me at the problem. I wish that Kubuntu/KDE supported Synaptic
rather than their packages that do not work as well.

Thanks for this suggestion I see I also have a

/var/cache/apt/archives/lock

Post by Robert Marshall
file - dated Aug 22 2012 - maybe muon has only now started noticing it?

I'm

Post by Robert Marshall
deleting it and will see if the next update runs without problem!

And just to log the fact that without the lock file (I've just double
checked to ensure it hasn't reappeared after deleting it yesterday) the
latest update also fails with muon with the libreoffice updates.
Couldn't find the releasechecker script
/usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
found error while replying
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied", "")
auth error reply!
Robert
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Robert Marshall

2014-06-24 14:58:51 UTC

Post by George Dvorak
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>

Post by George Dvorak
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>