jockey-kde tries to install driver as user

It's not supposed to use sudo, but uses policykit. This works fine under a standard Ubuntu and a standard Kubuntu install. This is not an upstream jockey bug, so retargetting.

When do you "pkexec whoami", do you get a dialog for your password? Please give me the output of

  dpkg -l '*pol*kit*' | grep ^ii

(1) Output of pkexec:

indigojo@ubuntu-desktop:~$ pkexec whoami
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/whoami' as the super user
Authenticating as: Yusuf Smith,,, (indigojo)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
root
indigojo@ubuntu-desktop:~$

(2) Output of dpkg:

indigojo@ubuntu-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*pol*kit*' | grep ^ii
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.102-1 GObject introspection data for PolicyKit
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.102-1 PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
ii libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.102-1 PolicyKit backend API
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.102-1 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libpolkit-qt-1-1 0.99.0-3 PolicyKit-qt-1 library
ii policykit-1 0.102-1 framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.102-1ubuntu1 GNOME authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
ii policykit-desktop-privileges 0.7 run common desktop actions without password

I have also just found that KPackageKit tries to do system updates without prompting me for a password, and fails.

Does it help to install polkit-kde-1?

It could be bug 867737. While either the gnome or kde polkit frontend will work, the gnome frontend listener process won't start in KDE by default.

Have installed the package polkit-kde-1 and will await the results of the next system update.

OK, there was an update this morning and it behaved as expected, i.e. prompted me for a password then installed the updates correctly.

Ah, thanks. I'll add a polkit-kde-1 dependency to jockey-kde.

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.9.5-0ubuntu1

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jockey (0.9.5-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - When connecting to D-BUS fails, improve error message to let users know
      what to do. Thanks Martin Owens.
    - jockey/oslib.py: Work with current PackageKit version. Thanks to Hedayat
      Vatankhah. (Not relevant for Ubuntu branch)
    - More user-friendly authentication messages on driver operations. Thanks
      Robert Roth. (LP: #799725)
    - Only ask for confirmation in check_composite if --confirm has been set.
      Thanks to Evan Dandrea. (LP: #855042)
    - examples/fake.modaliases: add -updates examples
    - Fix no space typo in VMWare drivers. Thanks Robert Roth. (LP: #722936)
    - detection.py: Fix crash if Driver ID does not have a package field.
      (LP: #837495)
  * debian/control: Add polkit-kde-1 dependency. (LP: #872442)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:40:31 +0200