Hello,
after updating Manjaro via pamac-manager, the graphical polkit dialog does not work anymore.
I tried the solutions presented here [Stable Update] 2026-01-04 - Manjaro 26.0, Mesa, Firefox, LibreOffice, COSMIC - #2 by discobot and installing and switching from kernel 6.18 to 6.12. The permissions seem to be correct but it didn’t help. What I didn’t try is forcibly removing polkit because I wasn’t sure if I would have to reboot before reinstalling it. I was also wondering if I did something wrong when masking the polkit-agent-helper.socket. After I did that the polkit dialog just wiggled from left to right very fast and then vanished. No chance to interact with it.
I’m using system-d-boot instead of GRUB ([How To] Convert to systemd-boot), XFCE 4.20 and set up the pam in combination with a yubikey. Could this interfere? I have no timeshift snapshot to go back to.
Maybe someone can help.
Yes.
Stopping the service to troubleshoot the issue is o.k.
But when you masked it, that will be permanent.
Do not forget to unmask it.
In case you don’t know how to:
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket
This removes the symlink to /dev/null
which this file is
which was created when you masked it.
ls -al /etc/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket
I do not know what your issue is and cannot help with that.
I used systemctl unmask to unmask it,
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Yeah, that’s the easy way. 
I feel stupid now …
I noticed that I also have polkit-gnome installed. Could this have something to do with the issue?
… unlikely, but I do not know
You said your DE is Xfce4.
Why would you even have or need to have polkit-gnome installed anyway?
… I thought the issue was resolved in the meantime - apparently not …
If you try removing polkit-gnome, you’ll likely find out what package wants it and caused it to be installed as a dependency.
If nothing wants it/needs it - remove it … would be my suggestion.
right - I just confirmed in Xfce4:
LANG=C sudo pacman -Rns polkit-gnome
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing polkit-gnome breaks dependency 'polkit-gnome' required by xfce4-session
I’ll have to go with:
then. 
I do not and did not have this issue - neither in Gnome nor in Xfce4.
(I do have VM’s created from all the respective Manjaro minimal editions here:
Xfce4, Gnome, Plasma, Cinnamon
no such issue in any of them)