Same problem as Rosemary Hendley (catbells). Fresh install of 12.04.1 LTS (amd 64bit) on a new computer (AMD A6 APU). Did not connect to the Internet to install patches during OS install. After OS install, and connecting to the Internet, muon-installer and muon-updater launched from the GUI application launcher O.K. and asked for a password for elevated privilages and ran properly. Used muon-updater to install all patches and rebooted. After patching/rebooting, launching either resulted in the "This operation cannot continue since proper authorization was not provided" error. They did NOT ask for a password. The problem seems to be them not asking for elevated privilages and therefore not being able to actually install software/patches. I had to manually run them via kdesudo from the command line which did work, but a new user would not know to do that and would be stuck. Was this bug re-introduced when I ran the update?
I also saw this same problem a few months ago when I installed 12.04 LTS in a vm under virtualbox. I just worked around it at the time since I was just trying Kubuntu 12.04 LTS out then and figured it was such a major bug it would be soon fixed. I am very surprised it has not been fixed by now. I also saw the firefox installer problem. The installer started from the application launcher would run, not ask for a password, lie that it had completed successfully, but not actually do anything. I had to install Firefox manually. Note again this was a clean install on a new hard drive. I hope this help someone fix this problem as it would sour a new user on Kubuntu which otherwise is excellent. cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="12.04.1 LTS, Precise Pangolin" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.1 LTS)" VERSION_ID="12.04" sudo apt-get install polkit-kde-1 [sudo] password for jfelten: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done polkit-kde-1 is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-23 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. uname -a Linux heidi 3.2.0-36-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:44:52 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qapt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833058 Title: Muon-updater doesn't ask for password To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qapt/+bug/833058/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs