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[James McCrae <631055@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

 affects policykit-1-gnome

The problem is that sometimes after booting, I cannot mount things, like
filesystems on the hard disk or flash drives, always receiving a
notification that it is "Not Authorized".  Also, I cannot restart or
shutdown the computer (must use sudo reboot) as it just goes to the
login screen.

It was annoying, and I read on forums that many people are having
this issue.  I was able to get things working on the next boot if I did:

apt-get install --reinstall policykit

But always the problem would come back at a later boot.

What finally worked for me permanently was going to System > Preferences
>>>> >> > > Startup Applications.  Hit "Edit" for "PolicyKit
Authentication Agent" and found the command is for KDE:

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

which must be a mistake since I am using GNOME (on 10.04 release).  I
changed the command to:

/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

and things have been working flawlessly since.  Why this was the default
setting, I have no idea.  But if this setting was in fact the source of
all these problems, please fix in a future release!

James

** Affects: policykit-1-gnome
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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(bug, and solution!) can't mount drives, restart/shutdown, etc., due to incorrect policykit setting at startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631055
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