Authentication is required to refresh the system sources

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/23/15 18:26, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> This is F22 with Kde-plasma5
>
> After yesterday update, each hour a popup ask me to insert root password:
> Authentication is required to refresh the system sources
>
> Ok, now I would uninstall polkit and updates plugin notifier.
> My question is:
> can I freely remove polkit w/out any side effect?
> I haven't Gnome, so I think so, but I prefer ask you to be sure
>
> can/should  I remove all of these?
>
> # rpm -qa | grep polkit
> polkit-qt-0.112.0-3.fc22.x86_64
> polkit-qt5-1-0.112.0-3.fc22.x86_64
> polkit-kde-5.3.2-1.fc22.x86_64
> polkit-0.113-4.fc22.x86_64
> polkit-pkla-compat-0.1-5.fc22.x86_64
> polkit-libs-0.113-4.fc22.x86_64
>
>
Well, all I can say is that I am running KDE-Plasma5 and have those versions of polkit installed on my system and I don't get any popups like you are getting.

Where does the popup originate?  On the systray or elsewhere?

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