PolicyKit Implicit and Explicit Authorisations Not Being Applied

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Expected Result 1: Valid implicit policy kit authorisation changes are applied.

Expected Result 2: Valid explicit policy kit authorisation changes are applied.

Execution Steps:

System - Administration - Authorisations
org - freedesktop - network-manager-settings - system - modify system connections
Click edit in implicit authorisations
Change anyone from no to yes

ACTUAL RESULT: Field population does not change after clicking on modify, no effect

In explicit authorisations click grant
Select the current test user account to be the beneficiary
Confirm no constraints is selected
Click grant

ACTUAL RESULT: Field population does not change after clicking grant, no effect

The authorization dialog doesn't show when you attempt to change any policy by the looks of it. And it spits out several errors:

(polkit-gnome-authorization:6794): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `PolKitGnomeToggleAction' to `GtkToggleAction'

(polkit-gnome-authorization:6794): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_action_get_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_ACTION (action)' failed

(polkit-gnome-authorization:6794): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_set_cursor_on_cell: assertion `tree_view->priv->tree != NULL' failed

Extracting the contents of /usr/lib from the Intrepid libgtk package to my desktop, and then running "LD_PRELOAD=~/Desktop/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 polkit-gnome-authorization" makes this work properly, so I'm re-assigning to gtk+2.0.

why did you assign this bug to a canonical team rather than desktop-bugs as we do usually for desktop bugs?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:15:25AM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> why did you assign this bug to a canonical team rather than desktop-bugs
> as we do usually for desktop bugs?

Feel free to change the assignment. I did it based on
https://wiki.canonical.com/UbuntuPlatform/QA/BugFixing/TeamBugLists but
if for the desktop team we should assign them to desktop-bugs instead,
we can do that.

Upstream recommended a patch for policykit-gnome from fedora, and James Westby has confirmed that this fixes the problem. Re-assigning back to policykit-gnome