Clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 - fully updated as of May 16, 2008. I can reproduce the problem by the following:
Boot & reset the bios clock to 00:00:00 12/31/1987, bring up Ubuntu without a network connection, Ubuntu login comes up with the bios time setting (31 Dec 1987), as expected. Enter username & password & Heron splash screen comes up. However, before it completes the desktop, it provides a popup telling me: ==== The computer clock appears to be wrong The session might encounter issues if the computer clock is not properly configured. Please consider adjusting it. Current date is 12/31/1987 Ignore Adjust the Clock ==== But then of course, I attempt to authenticate in order to adjust the clock and receive "Could not authenticate" , so I can't adjust it from the popup & can't get past the splash screen. Drop to a terminal (C-A-F1), connect to the network, reinit networking (sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart), Ubuntu goes out and gets the correct time. Switch back to gdm (C-A-F7) and the Ubuntu desktop completes without any further intervention from me. I also have difficulties on this laptop authenticating using update- manager. The update manager will hang at "Update" and does not make it to the authentication screen. I end up having to kill UA and updating from the terminal (sudo apt-get update/upgrade). That problem also sometimes occurs on my other laptop & I wonder if it is memory related; both only have 128MB of RAM. Reproducible: Always policykit-gnome is installed - version 0.7-2ubuntu1 gnome-system-tools is installed - version 2.22.0-ubuntu9 Kernel - 2.6.24-16-generic Let me know if I can provide any additional information from the logs to help. -- [users-admin] Unlock -> "Could not authenticate. An unexpected error has occurred." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194496 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs