Pamac GUI - Authentication window disappears

[medmedin]

There was a bug related to polkit-kde-agent silently crashing, it was fixed last May in Plasma 6.0.5

[carlosnewmusic]

no, it’s up to date, with xfce it happens too.

[magynhard]

@linux-aarhus

• having AUR enabled could cause it IF
  • check for updates on 3rd party is enabled

With the above comment byu @cfinnberg in mind - I request the affected members to disable the AUR update check - and verify if the issue persists.

Thank you for your info!

I tried this for a while now. Since then the problem did not occur again and to update the AUR packages i use the command line command sudo pamac update instead.

[scotty65]

@magynhard

sudo pamac update

Never use sudo with pamac. Pamac will prompt you for your password when required.

[BG405]

It’s worth noting that for a while, Pamac (from the Konsole terminal) was popping up the GUI Polkit window regardless.

I’d suggest that if this still the case on the affected system(s), use TTY (or ssh, which also avoided the issue), and I’d suspect the system hasn’t been properly maintained (.pacnew files, etc.).

Also, this:

@linux-aarhus

With the above comment byu @cfinnberg in mind - I request the affected members to disable the AUR update check - and verify if the issue persists.

cat /etc/pamac.conf | grep AUR
## Allow Pamac to search and install packages from AUR:
#EnableAUR

(excerpt). Note EnableAUR is commented out in mine, but I can still manage the AUR stuff with the -a option in Pamac CLI. For example:

pamac update -a

Cheers

[Daumeier]

Good Morning all,

just found this in “Latest”.

I can confirm it happens to me too.

KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0

Qt Version: 6.7.2

Kernel Version: 6.10.6-10-MANJARO (64-bit)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

It happens not everytime it is more sometimes. Sporadicly.

Window apears, I start typing and while I’m typing the Window disapears. Or before I was able to typ.

I reinstalled pamac-manager did not help too.

Greetings

Tony

[exaveal]

Same Problem here with XFCE. Password prompt just disappears randomly.

[matervinte]

I no longer have this problem seems it is solved, I’m now on 6.10.13-3-MANJARO

[BG405]

The only issue here is that 6.10 is now EOL, so hopefully a newer kernel will also work (linux612?)

[tracyanne]

@matervinte

I’m now on 6.10.13-3-MANJARO

Moving to 6.12 would be a good idea, as @ BG405 says 6.10 is EOL

[nikgnomic]

I do not see how changing kernels would affect pamac GUI authentication window

I cannot replicate OP problem, but if it did occur on my system I would use pamac CLI to update

pamac update --no-aur

[tracyanne]

@nikgnomic

I do not see how changing kernels would affect pamac GUI authentication window

Nor do I. But 6.10 IS at EOL, so should be replaced.

@nikgnomic

I cannot replicate OP problem,

I can’t either, I have seen something like it, on my partner’s computer, but was able to find the Authentication Window using Overview. I gather this is not the same issue.

[Ben]

@Machion Is this still an issue?

@tracyanne

Moving to 6.12 would be a good idea, as @ BG405 says 6.10 is EOL

This is also needs addressing - even if we don’t see the relevance.

@matervinte

I no longer have this problem seems it is solved, I’m now on 6.10.13-3-MANJARO

This was 9 days ago, so I think this thread is just about moribund.

[tracyanne]

@Ben

I think this thread is just about moribund.

I agree.

[soundofthunder]

In case this has potential benefit;

Posts in another thread suggest that switching Pamac from pamac-gtk3 to pamac-gtk (or vice versa) might solve the apparent disappearing authentication window problem.

This would be achieved by either:

sudo pacman -Syu pamac-gtk

…or…

sudo pacman -Syu pamac-gtk3

depending on which is currently installed.

You will be asked to confirm replacement, either way.

[Machion]

@Ben

@Machion Is this still an issue?

Indeed it didn’t happen for a while now, although I never got rid of suspiciousness. It seems to be fixed somehow. Btw I use pamac-gtk.