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[BUG] polkit-kde-agent crashes after first use

qt6-base has a bug which was causing only the first use of polkit-kde-agent to work.
Looking deeper I found this:
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Finishing obtaining privileges
KCrash: appFilePath points to nullptr!
KCrash: Application '<unknown>' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
Segmentation fault ```
And this was thankfully one of those too rare occasions where searching the error took me straight to the answer.
As the bug report suggests using the git tag v6.7.0-beta3 and building qt6-base locally solves the issue.
If anyone needs more detail on how to do that let me know and I'll add it.

Re: [BUG] polkit-kde-agent crashes after first use

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git clone https://gitea.artixlinux.org/packages/qt6-base.git
cd qt6-base
In the PKGBUILD change line 83 to:
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source=(git+https://code.qt.io/qt/$_pkgfn#tag=v$pkgver-beta3
Change line 87 to
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sha256sums=('b9200a629a12917b33748a6cb25880e9429e294b03623011201a7195a888f36f'
or
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sha256sums=('SKIP'
To build and install (add r to the options if you don't want to keep any 'makedepends' installed):
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makepkg -si

Re: [BUG] polkit-kde-agent crashes after first use

Reply #3 –
Thank you @gripped

Re: [BUG] polkit-kde-agent crashes after first use

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thanks
And you can also use /usr/lib/kf6/kdesu to authenticate

Re: [BUG] polkit-kde-agent crashes after first use

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The good new is that the bug report has been noticed by Nate Graham so I'm slightly more confident it will get fixed before QT jumps another version and using the beta3 branch ceases to be useful