Actual "ubuntu" session issues

[dino99]

Since a few days, some applets and app have troubles:

- synaptic now only loads via 'sudo' command line, icon click now loop. Previous version has also the same problem with the latest gnome upgrades.
- some chromium urls not displaying all the icons: get instead some rectangles (can be the site fault indeed, but there is nothing logged to solve that problem)
- gnome-shell-extension weather icon fails to load
- gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor cant run (lot of js errors)
- gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus is not compatible with actual gnome version (cant be installed on 3.35+ version)

Quite usual issues met at freeze times

[mc4man]

synaptic is fine here, using the current non-proposed package ( 0.84.6ubuntu3

[ajgreeny]

Also seems fine here, though I am not using ubuntu but Xubuntu; same synaptic version so I think this may be something other than a general OS problem; perhaps more gnome related.

[mc4man]

Also seems fine here, though I am not using ubuntu but Xubuntu; same synaptic version so I think this may be something other than a general OS problem; perhaps more gnome related.

There is a new synaptic in proposed that's not ready for use...

[ajgreeny]

There is a new synaptic in proposed that's not ready for use...

Even when using a development version I keep away from "proposed" unless there's a good reason to use it. I will however now install that newer version of synaptic and see if I get the same problem.

[mc4man]

On a throwaway install just had issue where no libreoffice app would open except as root. Resolved that with a sledgehammer of
sudo rm -rf /tmp/*

[dino99]

Good idea about the sledgehammer , now synaptic loads by clicking his icon

[dino99]

Agrrrr; one reboot later, get again the same loop issue and the previous solution does not works

pkexec[1926]: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/oem] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic]

[mc4man]

Agrrrr; one reboot later, get again the same loop issue and the previous solution does not works

Maybe try this.
Open a terminal & go

journalctl -f > 1.log

Then try to open synaptic normally, when it fails back in terminal go ctrl+c to quit.
Then check out 1.log in home folder for any errors.
(- may be apparmor issue..

[dino99]

nothing special from systemctl -f
but journalctl has logged:

pkexec: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/oem] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic]