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This seems to be a general problem with several packages.
I know this is a testing problem but I haven't been able to find a solution so I thought I would look for some help here.
Here is a sample of the issue:
cihonm@cihonm:~/Downloads$ synaptic-pkexec
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ===
Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager
Authenticating as: cihonm,,, (cihonm)
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.
if i run it like this it works so that is what I have been doing.
But I would like to get my menu shortcuts working.
root@cihonm:~ # /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
su: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: not found
127|root@cihonm:~ # apt install policykit-1-gnome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
policykit-1-gnome is already the newest version (0.105-7).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
First, apparently it's not in the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ directory.
More likely it's in the /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/ directory (as per hoas' suggestion), but you can check that easily enough.
Second, I wouldn't think you would want to call it from root. (root doesn't "need" it?) Typically you call it from your "normal" user.
It's probably also worth mentioning that using Synaptic with testing/unstable is unwise, the command line provides far more information and allows far more control (IMO).