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agashamu

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From: California

Registered: 2021-03-01

Posts: 136

authentication

Hi,
I've been setting up my new LL 6.0 distro, and it seems that I made a stupid mistake somewhere.
I don't get the "authenticate" popup anymore, therefore I can only open Synaptic with sudo in the terminal. I did a restore from live usb, it worked but authentication is still missing. Is it fixable?? Or better do a fresh install??
Thanks!

Last edited by agashamu (2022-06-09 01:26:15)

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Linux Mint Xfce 21.1

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

Re: authentication

do you know what you were doing when the mistake happened?

Skaperen

Member

From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

Re: authentication

if you have not done much customizing setup and have no personal/business data that has no backup (preferably two backups) then a fresh install is probably best.  that would give you more practice doing these things, too.  and you would have a cleaner system (fewer strange settings).  that's why i always do fresh installs for version upgrades of my Xbuntu labtop.

agashamu

Member

From: California

Registered: 2021-03-01

Posts: 136

Re: authentication

Yes and no... As you know, setting up a new distro takes a lot of changes to make.
I remember installing Mintupdater, as a PPA from Bodhi Linux which I've never done before, and it did work surprisingly good. Or, did it?... And many other little things...
Thanks for replying.

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Linux Mint Xfce 21.1

agashamu

Member

From: California

Registered: 2021-03-01

Posts: 136

Re: authentication

Fresh install, you are probably right.
Thanks.

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Linux Mint Xfce 21.1

agashamu

Member

From: California

Registered: 2021-03-01

Posts: 136

Re: authentication

Problem solved.
Somehow I unchecked "PolicyKit Authentication Agent" in Application Autostart. After a reboot everything works fine.

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Linux Mint Xfce 21.1