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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

 

Observed this bug on Xubuntu 16.04 (installed yesterday from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/xenial-desktop-
amd64.iso.zsync ).

New account, quickly customized.

Observed after locking screen for the first time with 16.04.

Never observed before (on 15.10, 15.04, 14.10 with same hardware), but
on those I used xscreensaver because of a bug with lightdm.

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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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