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[Darren Davison <1512002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the advice to disable the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 to
fix this is akin to advising someone to take the batteries out of their
smoke alarms to stop the annoying noise.

One of the other links in there has a more plausible angle though, which
is that it is to do with the message notification panel.  I'm running
with this disabled/removed to see if it is the likely culprit.

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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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