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[Bug 1240336] Re: Not authorized to perform operation / Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid

 

I'm also having this problem. I have just recently upgraded from 14.04
to 14.10 Ubuntu.

I am wondering if this could in any way have to do with two
administrator users on the same system. My system always has four users
and two of them are administrators. I've never had anything like this
happen before.

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Title:
  Not authorized to perform operation / Unable to determine the session
  we are in: No session for pid

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “lxdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “policykit-desktop-privileges” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After a new install of 64 bit Ubuntu 13.10 on my second partition, I
  used dpkg to reinstall all the same packages I had on my 32 bit 13.04
  partition.  I copied all my home directory files over and updated all
  the packages.  I now find that I don't have permissions to change the
  network settings; I can't mount my other hard drive or any USB stick
  using nautilus, or (udisks without using sudo)' I can't run synaptic
  by clicking on the GUI (I have to go to a terminal and sudo synaptic);
  etc.  I can't find any documentation on the configuration of
  policykit-desktop-privileges, so I'm filing this bug.  For me it
  appears to be totally broken.  Maybe someone can help me out.

  Thanks,

  Rob

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: policykit-desktop-privileges 0.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 15 20:20:55 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-09 (7 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131008)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: policykit-desktop-privileges
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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