Created attachment 129444 [details] Screenshot. Note how it says "you need to authorize before saving", but I can't make any changes, so no saving and no authorizing. SUMMARY Catch-22 when trying to change the time zone, or the time, as a regular user. I would need to authorize myself, but all controls to make changes are disabled and I never get to the password prompt. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open time/time zone configuration as a regular user. OBSERVED RESULT I get a message that tells me I will need to authorize myself upon saving. But all input fields where I could make such changes are disabled, so no changes ever get registered, the "Apply" button stays disabled, I never get to authorize myself. As a result I can't change either time or time zone. EXPECTED RESULT Either a MacOS-style "unlock" icon that allows me to authorize myself and then make changes; or being allowed to make changes and authorize myself when applying them. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200614 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 Kernel Version: 5.7.1-1-default OS Type: 64-bit
What happens when you run "timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London"
$ date Mi 17. Jun 15:25:25 CEST 2020 $ timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London $ date Mi 17. Jun 14:25:34 BST 2020
but did you get a GUI prompt when you ran that timedatectl command?
No. It just changed it.
Can I see pkaction -v --action-id org.freedesktop.timedate1.set-timezone and ps ux | grep polkit-kde-agen
Sure: $ pkaction -v --action-id org.freedesktop.timedate1.set-timezone org.freedesktop.timedate1.set-timezone: description: Set system timezone message: Authentication is required to set the system timezone. vendor: The systemd Project vendor_url: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd icon: implicit any: auth_admin_keep implicit inactive: auth_admin_keep implicit active: auth_admin_keep $ ps ux | grep polkit-kde-agen reichmu+ 11328 0.0 0.0 6124 2064 pts/1 S+ 20:59 0:00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn polkit-kde-agen $ ps ux | grep polkit-kde reichmu+ 2396 0.0 0.3 752324 63476 ? Sl Jun16 0:09 /usr/lib64/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 reichmu+ 11198 0.0 0.0 6120 2124 pts/1 S+ 20:58 0:00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn polkit-kde
The problem has magically disappeared for me. :/ I updated to 5.19.2, and removed the activity manager related config files in ~/.config which had become corrupted, but I can't say whether that is what made it go away.
Thanks for the update; changing status. If you are able to reproduce the issue, please share your investigations in this or a new ticket.