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[Darren Davison <1512002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently installed 2 machines with Xubuntu 15.10 and I see this issue
very often, but not *always* on one of them (a desktop PC) and never on
the other (a laptop).

On the desktop machine, I simply hover over the dialog and hold my ESC
key down until it eventually goes away.  Like another responder said, it
seems to be time dependent and stores the events while the machine is
locked.  Typically takes a few seconds (so probably 30-40 cancellations
of the dialog) but the most recent one took over a minute (I'd estimate
the dialog re-appeared a couple of hundred times at least) although the
machine wasn't locked for significantly longer than before.

Once it disappears for the last time, it seems to stay away until the
next time the machine is locked/unlocked.

It's parent process is the xfce-session (in my case) so it's not obvious
what is actually triggering it to appear.  Entering the password
seemingly makes no difference to the persistent nature of the dialog.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512002

Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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