Pamac GUI - Authentication window disappears

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

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

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.

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

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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:

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 :wink:

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