I am experiencing this bug as well in both gdmsetup, and users-admin after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. The users-admin unlock button is greyed and says:
Not authorized to make changes
If I run gksu users-admin it works fine...
I think it also might be related to why the Shutdown/Restart is greyed from the System > Shutdown menu
** (gdmsetup:8951): WARNING **: Error calling GetValue('daemon/TimedLoginEnable'): Key not found
** (gdmsetup:8951): WARNING **: Error calling GetValue('daemon/TimedLoginDelay'): Key not found
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: init delay=30
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: skipping shell /bin/false
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: Found current seat: /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat5
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: running 'ck-history --frequent --seat='Seat5' --session-type='''
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: explicitly skipping user: nobody
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/md/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/svn/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/garydance/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/var/aegir/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1003
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user aegir
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1002
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user garydance
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1001
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user svn
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1000
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 2 sessions for user md
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUser: adding session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session3
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: sessions changed user=md num=1
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: added session for user: md
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: not adding session on other seat: /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6
I am experiencing this bug as well in both gdmsetup, and users-admin after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. The users-admin unlock button is greyed and says:
Not authorized to make changes
If I run gksu users-admin it works fine...
I think it also might be related to why the Shutdown/Restart is greyed from the System > Shutdown menu
My system is up to date:
md@md:~$ uname -r
2.6.31-17-generic
md@md:~$ ck-list-sessions 27T00:55: 16.343876Z' 27T20:13: 22.764843Z'
Session3:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Michael Dance'
seat = 'Seat5'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2009-12-
login-session-id = '4294967295'
Session6:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Michael Dance'
seat = 'Seat8'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/smb/7139/100'
remote-host-name = '::ffff:127.0.0.1'
is-local = FALSE
on-since = '2009-12-
login-session-id = '4294967295'
md@md:~$ ps aux | grep polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1 policykit- 1-gnome/ polkit- gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1 gnome-authentic ation-agent- 1
md 7643 0.0 0.1 147336 6268 ? S Dec27 0:00 /usr/lib/
md 8826 0.0 0.0 7336 896 pts/0 R+ 09:34 0:00 grep --color=auto polkit-
md@md:~$ gdmsetup
** (gdmsetup:8951): WARNING **: Error calling GetValue( 'daemon/ TimedLoginEnabl e'): Key not found
** (gdmsetup:8951): WARNING **: Error calling GetValue( 'daemon/ TimedLoginDelay '): Key not found p/ConsoleKit/ Seat5 garydance/ .face' p/ConsoleKit/ Session3 p/ConsoleKit/ Session6
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: init delay=30
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: skipping shell /bin/false
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: Found current seat: /org/freedeskto
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: running 'ck-history --frequent --seat='Seat5' --session-type='''
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: explicitly skipping user: nobody
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/md/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/svn/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/home/
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: user icon changed
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: adding monitor for '/var/aegir/.face'
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1003
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user aegir
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1002
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user garydance
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1001
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 0 sessions for user svn
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Getting list of sessions for user 1000
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: Found 2 sessions for user md
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUser: adding session /org/freedeskto
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: sessions changed user=md num=1
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: added session for user: md
** (gdmsetup:8951): DEBUG: GdmUserManager: not adding session on other seat: /org/freedeskto