#807063 synaptic does not start

Package:
synaptic
Source:
synaptic
Description:
Graphical package manager
Submitter:
"Brent S. Elmer"
Date:
2018-12-24 23:03:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#807063#5
Date:
2015-12-04 19:55:44 UTC
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Recently when I start synaptic from a non root user, I would get prompted for
the Administrator password.  I would enter the root password and synaptic would
tell me the password was wrong.  I know the password is right.  I was having to
su and then start synaptic.  Since something was wrong with synaptic, I removed
everything in ~.gnome2/keyrings in order to clear out anything in there
synaptic may have been trying to use.  Since I did that, synaptic will not
start.  When I try to run it from the menu of a non root user, nothing ever
shows up.  If I grep for synaptic I see synaptic -pkexec processes running.  If
I run synaptic -pkexec from a terminal, it just hangs and nothing ever shows.
#807063#10
Date:
2016-11-29 07:39:24 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

same problem here since one or two months ago.
In addition, (non-root) terminal output says
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fred@jupiter:~$ synaptic-pkexec
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ===
Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager
Authenticating as: root
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.
fred@jupiter:~$
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best regards,
Oliver
#807063#15
Date:
2018-12-24 22:53:26 UTC
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The symptoms of this bug sound like what is described in #881365.  That
bug lists a workaround.

regards,
mike