seeing more people encountering this - thought I'd share my observations: - did not see this for a few weeks now - toyed around with nextcloud for a bit yesterday (the new desktop sync client) - also tried to connect a (hacked) amazon fire hd10 tablet (which failed, also tried to get connection using gMTP, then left my system to sleep/idle) - came back to the invisible/unclickable thingie - alt-f2 + r gets rid of it as usual
last journalctl says: (especially the last three entries seem interesting) Sep 04 11:09:45 hostname gvfsd[54716]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 04 11:09:45 hostname gvfsd[56942]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 04 11:09:45 hostname gvfsd[56925]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 04 11:09:45 hostname gvfsd[1976]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 12:00:03 hostname gvfsd[120538]: Device 0 (VID=18d1 and PID=0281) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.17. Sep 06 12:00:03 hostname gvfsd[120538]: Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team Sep 06 12:00:03 hostname gvfsd[120538]: Error 1: Get Storage information failed. Sep 06 12:00:06 hostname gvfsd[120538]: PTP: reading event an error 0x05 occurred Sep 06 12:00:07 hostname gvfsd[120538]: Android device detected, assigning default bug flags Sep 06 15:08:14 hostname dbus-daemon[1189]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service' requested by ':1.552' (uid=1000 pid=42440 comm="/usr/libexec/gvfsd-dnssd --spawner :1.3 /org/gtk/g" label="unconfined") Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[1927]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[5385]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[8198]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[40339]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[42440]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[8448]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:08:15 hostname gvfsd[50589]: A connection to the bus can't be made Sep 06 15:17:00 hostname polkitd(authority=local)[1215]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.gtk.vfs.file-operations-helper for unix-process:7445:35881 [/bin/sh -c pkexec /usr/libexec/gvfsd-admin "$@" --address $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS gvfsd-admin --spawner :1.3 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2] (owned by unix-user:username) Sep 06 15:17:00 hostname pkexec[7446]: username: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/username] [COMMAND=/usr/libexec/gvfsd-admin --spawner :1.3 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2 --address unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus] Sep 06 15:17:00 hostname gvfsd[7446]: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed username@hostname:~$ ^C -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824874 Title: undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top- left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1824874/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs