Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #206198
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 206198

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Confirmed.

I have not seen this on Ubuntu, but it is happening on a very minimal Xubuntu that I have.

When I click on the Unlock button in Network Manager, I get the same dialog reported above.

   Could not authenticate
   An unexpected error has occurred.

When running network-admin from the command line, the following error is reported:
   ** (network-admin:22011): CRITICAL: **: The name org.gnome.PolicyKit was not provided by any
   .service files.

Seems that it needs the file:
   /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.PolicyKit.service

Is provided by:
   policykit-gnome

Which is missing from this system. Installing it solves the problem. Looks like a dependency bug.

It seems that the binary:
   /usr/bin/network-admin

Is owned by:
   gnome-system-tools

I will be submitting a debdiff shortly that adds policykit-gnome to the Requires for gnome-system-tools

Other administrative dialogs work fine, such as Hardware Drivers.