When I try to write a Fedora image to a USB stick using the Fedora Image Writer application I get asked to authenticate using either my registered fingerprint or the user account password. Using my finger gives no problem but typing my password makes the authentication dialog ¨think" for about 20 seconds and then close. I say think because the dialog is not completely frozen; the password field becomes greyed out but you can still cancel and move the dialog box. See screenshot-1. The mediawriter application shows its error screen with the message "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken". See screenshot-2. A desktop notification is also launched but only on the first try after opening this application. See screenshot-3. Clicking "Retry" opens the authentication dialog again with the same result. Clicking "cancel" on the authentication dialog makes mediawriter also error with the message "Not authorized to perform operation". See screenshot-4. Using the application to "restore" (wipe) the USB stick seems to work although the authentication dialog still needs to "think" about 20 seconds before accepting my password. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch Fedora Media Writer 2.Tick "download automatically" and click "next" 3.Choose any Fedora edition, Click "next". 4.Choose any "write options". Click "next" 5.Click "write", click "write" again in the confirmation dialog. 6.Type anything (your password or anything else) in the authentication password box. Actual Results: The authentication dialog box freezes and mediawriter shows an error. I am not able to write an image to my USB stick. Expected Results: mediawriter downloads the Fedora image I chose and writes it to my USB stick Fedora 41 KDE plasma 6.2.5 Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen9 Application version: mediawriter-5.2.1-1.fc41.x86_64
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This doesn't look like an issue in Fedora Media Writer, but in Polkit, which is where the dialog comes from.
No movement since 3 months. Anything I can/should still do?
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Bug still present on Fedora 43 with following component versions: Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 43 with Kernel 6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Polkit version: 126-6.fc43 Polkit-kde version: 6.5.3-1.fc43 polkit-qt6-1 version: 0.200.0-4.fc43