Authentication fails when using Imagewriter

[linux-aarhus]

@Aragorn

I’ll change @omano’s recommendation for 6.12 to 6.6 in the wiki post then.

I think 6.12 is a mighty fine suggestion.

There appears to be two different issues at play…

[Stable Update] 2026-01-13 - Kernels, KDE Gear 25.12.1, Haskell, Mesa

@omano most likely your issue is die to Drop setuid bit from polkit-agent-helper-1 binary (#5) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / polkit · GitLab See also Pidfd not supported on this platform, disable polkit-agent-helper.socket and use setuid helper Polkit auth broken after update (Pidfd not supported on kernel 5.15)

And @omano did not land on 6.12 by coincidence - I am sure it was the result of a careful testing finding the right approach.