SUMMARY I am trying to change my avatar or email address in systemsettings --> users. For my avatar picture, I've tried a picture from my phone (.jpg) and also the standard avatars that are available. When I click apply the message "Could not get permission to save user xxx". I think this is the same message that appears, when I click cancel in the PolicyKit1 window, but the window doesn't open. When I try to change my sddm theme in systemsettings --> Startup and Shutdown --> Login Screen (SDDM) the PolicyKit1 window does show up and I can enter my password and everything just works fine. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open systemsettings --> users 2. Select different avatar or enter an email adrees 3. Click apply OBSERVED RESULT Error message "Could not get permission to save user xxx". EXPECTED RESULT PolicyKit1 window opens, I insert my password, no error message and avatar or email are set. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux; Kernel: 5.16.3-arch1-1 (64bit) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I installed Arch freshly on this device where the bug happens so it never worked on this system (I already tried reinstalling all packages and I already reinstalled my system).
I have another laptop with Arch and KDE installed (pretty much the same setup on the laptop that has the bug), but the system on this one is not freshly installed. I tried changing my avatar or email and it worked. Afterwards I updated my system (using pacman) and it doens't work anymore. So this bug seems to be in a current version of the systemsettings or it's dependencies. (Unfortunately I didn't update this laptop very recently, because I just use it sometimes, so maybe this bug is a little bit older). I don't know how I can provide useful information for solving this problem, but I would like to help!
I can confirm that I'm also unable to change my user settings (like email) from the users kcm.
*** Bug 449395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Caused by the update to accountsservice 22.04.62
Offending commit is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/commit/d5847d8d012d4a2a659f890c210ad10031a9cf3d
*** Bug 449423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 449484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does anyone know if this is an upstream regression that's being fixed, or is the breakage expected/unrevertable and we have to adapt to it?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #8) > Does anyone know if this is an upstream regression that's being fixed, or is > the breakage expected/unrevertable and we have to adapt to it? This seems completely intentional: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/46#note_378985
Darn. Guess we gotta fix it.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #10) > Darn. Guess we gotta fix it. Haha -- bro my bad i break it to often then i should be; just be happy your not as busy to fix my errors :D
*** Bug 449567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1433
Git commit efddc639b7f1443e643787e841893a5700f07742 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Jan Blackquill. Committed on 03/02/2022 at 21:39. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. kcms/users: set interactive auth flag The accounts service requires this now. M +18 -7 kcms/users/src/user.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/efddc639b7f1443e643787e841893a5700f07742
Git commit 2885bcfacbf49f8292b8567f0b710efc30b7e57d by Nate Graham, on behalf of Jan Blackquill. Committed on 03/02/2022 at 21:58. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.24'. kcms/users: set interactive auth flag The accounts service requires this now. (cherry picked from commit efddc639b7f1443e643787e841893a5700f07742) M +18 -7 kcms/users/src/user.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/2885bcfacbf49f8292b8567f0b710efc30b7e57d
Just a quick confirmation that this issue still exists in ; KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
I can confirm, the bug still exists in Plasma 5.24.0 Framework: 5.90.0 Qt Version 5.15.2 Only the error message changed: It now reports "Something went wrong during saving !"
The bug is fixed as far as KDE is concerned. What you are seeing is a different, upstream issue. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/issues/98
This bug still exist. Would of thought the fix would of been released with the Plasma 5.24.0 update.
(In reply to horen@mac.com from comment #17) > I can confirm, the bug still exists in > Plasma 5.24.0 > Framework: 5.90.0 > Qt Version 5.15.2 > > Only the error message changed: It now reports "Something went wrong during > saving !" I can also comfirm this.
Please see comment 18(In reply to locutusofborg from comment #19) > This bug still exist. Would of thought the fix would of been released with > the Plasma 5.24.0 update. Please see comment 18
(In reply to horen@mac.com from comment #17) > I can confirm, the bug still exists in > Plasma 5.24.0 > Framework: 5.90.0 > Qt Version 5.15.2 > > Only the error message changed: It now reports "Something went wrong during > saving !" The same goes for me on Arch linux. Plasma 5.24.1 Framework: 5.91.0 Qt Version 5.15.2
(In reply to Ray from comment #22) > The same goes for me on Arch linux. > > Plasma 5.24.1 > Framework: 5.91.0 > Qt Version 5.15.2 For the third time: please see comment 18