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megawebmaster

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Registered: 2009-08-12

Posts: 75

[SOLVED] Unable to authenticate in GNOME

Hello!
I've got real pain in the neck problem... I've changed internal disks and copied archlinux from old one to new. Then started problem - I couldn't get a propmt to authenticate user while I'm trying to mount external drive or change system settings (i.e. System->Preferences->Power management->Set as default) The window is showing a couple of times for max 1 second and then disappear. For many times I've read what was written there and it was "Unable to authenticate" (in polish). I've searched around google but no answer is killing me. Could you help?

P.S. I can provide screenshot but in polish (fast fingers did what I wanted to do )

EDIT: Sorry for my impatience, I ran polkit-gnome manually in console and it told me that /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 "needs to be setuid root" so I did as root chmod +s /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 and it worked.

Regards!

Last edited by megawebmaster (2010-04-10 20:34:40)

gvenugopalan

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Registered: 2016-04-10

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to authenticate in GNOME

Thanks for the post and taking time to post the answer after it worked.

Helped me today! 

Thanks ..