[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1824874] Re: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed]

2020-02-18 Thread Bruce Copeland
Last night I encountered similar bug behavior with a different message. Several hours after a printing related crash, another orphaned authentication dialog was painted on top of the gnome shell with the message: Please enter your password to access problem reports of system programs In light of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1824874] Re: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed]

2020-02-12 Thread Bruce Copeland
Sergey, I think you might be onto something. I use a yubikey and have PAM configured to detect the yubikey automatically for sudo. So it could be a timing issue as you suggest, or maybe GNOME is making inappropriate assumptions about whether authentication requires actual user input. -- You recei

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1824874] Re: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed]

2020-02-12 Thread Bruce Copeland
This morning, I managed to trigger this bug again. I installed a new component from the Activities/Search view. The component installed without requiring any authentication, but 30 minutes later, the offending authentication dialog image appeared on the screen. I believe there are probably two dif

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1824874] Re: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed]

2020-02-06 Thread Bruce Copeland
Yes Daniel, it is the same as shown in the screenshot in comment #3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824874 Title: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1824874] Re: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed]

2020-02-06 Thread Bruce Copeland
I've seen this same bug three times in the past two days on a new (up- to-date) ubuntu 19.10 system. The bug is NOT therefore unique to 19.04. Clicking anywhere on the dialog does in fact produce the behavior that would be appropriate for clicking whatever is below the dialog. This appears therefor