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It's the same error if I try VANILLA or GAPPS

[SOLUTION] It works after you enter a password using "lxpolkit".

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Does any app which asks for permission to elevate to root work?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit

You might have to translate the names to what Fedora reposi provide. But this should be a good start

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Nice catch, lxpolkit works for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like you have a permissions issue. I just tested it on Fedora workstation gnome, run it from regular menu, then it asked me for password. You, you have a permission denied isssue, so you need to figure out how to run it as root.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Yep, that seems to be it. lxpolkit worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Do you have something like polkit-gnome installed?

Edit: Glad you found a solution. Just for completeness: You also have to start the polkit agent via your sway config file. For polkit-gnome it would have been

exec /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

polkit-gnome is not available in dnf. I did install polkit-kde, polkit-qt and mate-polkit to see if it works. Same problem, sadly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Might have to reboot for the polkit agent to be started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Nope, rebooting doesn't do anything