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[Ovidiu Manta <ovidiu_manta@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have just recently upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 Ubuntu. I had this
problem too, for an entire week now. couldn't edit users, network,
suspend, shutdown, etc. tried every single solution to no avail. In the
end i've repeated apt-get update/apt-get upgrade and it's fixed. Also
fixed the pulseaudio sound problem i had and never figured out a
solution for it. Linux desktop is a nice project, unfortunately riddled
with bugs, and missing direction.

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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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