[lxc-devel] Bump: Failure with authorisation of update-manager in Ubuntu Desktop-Container

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Guido Jäkel (G.Jaekel at DNB.DE):
> Hi Dev's,
> 
> may anyone please help me to solve this issue?
> 
> Guido
> 
> On 04.01.2015 20:01, Guido Jäkel wrote on [lxc-user]:
> >My goal here is to set up a Ubuntu Desktop Container ...
> >[...]
> >After a a few tweaks, this already runs very well...
> >[...]> But now I stuck at an issue concerning the GUI versions of software management: The apt commandline tools work, but the GUI program update-manager shows the error message "You are not allowed to perform this action" and fail to work. However, if i start it with 'gksudo update-manager', there is no such message.
> > 
> > In the same way, the software-manager or other GUI methods to install/remove software is not working. May anybody please have a hint what might be missing in the container setup or have to be tweaked inside?

So you have ubuntu desktop running in a unprivileged container?  Exactly how are
you logging in - you have a tty on the host which runs x in the container?  vnc?
x2go?  spice?

I assume there's nothing in syslog or /var/log/audit/audit.log?  Can you strace
update-manager and grep -e "(EPERM|EACCES)" ?

-serge