I have been using Mabox for several months without issue. But after an update yesterday, I cannot access timeshift or gparted or pacman updater. The box where I would put in my password to authenticate the process shows up briefly on the screen – moves so quickly from left to right that I cannot tell what the error message is, and then the box disappears from the screen. Anyone have this problem and the solution to it? Thanks, marshden.
Hi @marshden ,
Welcome to the forum.
I am facing the same.
If you want to use gparted or other root GUI.
For the moment, run root GUI from terminal, till issue is solved.
sudo gparted
sudo pamac-manager
sudo timeshift
I have no idea what the source of the issue is.
Thank you, muzqs. I am going to remove pamac, gparted, and timeshift and reinstall them to see if that resolves the issue.
In my opinion if 3 separate applications are doing the same thing then those applications are likely fine and that somehow the policy kit ( the authenticator ) is broke.
You may need to re-install polkit-gnome with ‘sudo pacman -S polkit-gnome’
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Thanks, SauronsMouth and muzqs.
I have been fiddling with trying to restore a snapshot from timeshift via the terminal with no success. Perhaps one of these two solutions will be the ticket.
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FYI, removing and reloading the polkit did not rectify the failure. There has to be some conflict in the kernel that was recently updated in the past 2 days. Switching to the kernel version muzqs suggested worked.
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