I ran into a bit of a bug (two bugs actually?):

  • tried to install a debian package using gnome-software
  • was (rightfully) asked to authenticate with the dialog shown in the screenshot
  • the polkit permissions are wrong (this is bug number 1, probably I can report it to my distro’s polkitd package)
  • clicking “cancel” did not make the dialog go away
  • the dialog blocked most interactions with any other windows (screenshots worked - but that was all)
  • killing the process that spawned the dialog (gnome-software) did not make the dialog go away (this is the thing that’s annoying me most)

I wasn’t able to find out which process was responsible for this, so I also don’t know which package to report it for… Ended up killing my entire gnome session to be able to continue.

Does anyone have an idea?

  • myotheraccount@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Thanks, that’s very helpful!

    It turned out the issue was a version conflict: I had update polkit, but gnome was still running with the old library in memory. Apparently the polkit-agent binaries are no longer supposed to be setuid root. After restarting gnome-shell, the bug no longer occurs.

    This is the debian bug, for those interested: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1125141