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    Question PolicyKit-Bug in software center (&elsewhere)

    hello!

    i freshly installed ubuntu on my cubox-i 4 . hurray! i use one of maltegrosse's builds:
    http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~samv/

    at session-start, i get to choose between a huge, sluggish kde, a "pure" xfce and xubuntu. xubuntu is the only one that seems to mostly work and look nice. (i tell you this because i suspect interference between the kde- and the x-parts of the build, without having any good idea about the specifics). what bugs me is the following:

    after the first few installs from the software-center (whole applications, which worked), every time i tried to download something (codecs, plugins), i got this:

    Software can't be installed or removed because the authentication service is not available. (org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.161'}): org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages
    i get similar messages from amarok, gmusicbrowser and firefox ("similar" means: they miss some package - do i want to install the plugin? - oh, but i do not have the right...)
    fyi: in "application autostart",the authentication agent is indeed, and always has been, turned on ("/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/...)

    to no avail, i tried the solutions here:
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/21896...-service-is-no
    and here:
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/20750...ing-python-2-7

    purge and reinstall of the software manager seemed to work the first time, but only for one download. the second time i tried it, it did nothing.

    help would be much appreciated. i don't have a particulary good grasp of the command lines, so please assume i'm a little slow. thank you!
    Last edited by pavel protin; June 20th, 2015 at 10:36 PM.

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