Since it was working in 11, assuming you were using 'synaptic-pkexec', something in polkit changed in the upgrade to 12. I did post a year or two back about the restructure of polkit and the loss of use after. Do you know what rules and methods were in use to allow the user through polkit? Since the password fails in your post above, polkit's setup is the issue. No setup and incorrect setup yield that result. It could be that the former rules were pkla based - which broke without the additional package 'polkit-pkla'. The newer js based format had been functional prior.Synaptic worked without a problem in debian 11.9 bullseye
As I remember, listchanges did mention it.
Also on older installs there may have been no default rule to include sudo members in polkit actions. I believe that is now included by default.
You need to re-configure polkit. There are a few discussion to find that may help...
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php ... it#p795066
My ways may or may not line up with your requirements. You can alter the method in many ways to suite. Using the method I used in that link, you could use the sudo group instead if desired.
Statistics: Posted by CwF — 2024-08-11 19:19
