Pamac upgrade -a and package manager: authentication failed without even typing my password

[chicho1704]

Hi forum,
I was trying to update and both options: pamac upgrade -a as well as the package manager give me an authentication failed window without typing my password.

pamac upgrade -a
Vorbereitung... 
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentifizierung wird zur Installation, Aktualisierung oder Entfernung von Paketen benötigt 
Authenticating as: euki 
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====
Fehler: Authentifizierung fehlgeschlagen

What can I Do?

Thank You Very Much

[Aragorn]

It’s a transitory polkit problem.

@discobot

problems with polkit

After a change in polkit, some users report permission problems. Different solutions are suggested:

• rebooting
• reinstalling polkit (with sudo pacman -S polkit, since pamac may not work in that case)
• fixing the suid permissions manually with

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

• fixing the file permissions manually
  The proper permissions are:

drwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Directory
-rwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Executables
-rw-r--r-- (644) - root:root - Rules files

so to fix you use

sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/*

[chicho1704]

Thank You Very Much.

Unfortunately it still does not work.

sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/\*
zsh: no matches found: /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/\*
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/
chmod: Zugriff auf '/usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

What did I do wrong?

Thank You Very Much

[soundofthunder]

@chicho1704

no matches found: /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/\*

This simply means there were no rules defined in that directory – so it found no matches – we presume the other parts of the command were successful, as no warnings to the contrary were issued.

@chicho1704

What did I do wrong?

Nothing wrong – except for formatting

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[chicho1704]

ok, Thank You.. I got that with formatting…please excuse me.

But why does authentification still fails without even typing my password?

I have done all steps mentioned and it still does not work…

Thank You Very Much

[chicho1704]

I solved the problem by changing Kernel Linux 6.1.159-1 to Linux 6.6.119-1.

Thank You Very Much!