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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0009623Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2026-04-06 01:23
ReporterRDjavi.06 Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0009623: root terminal not open after upgrade
Description

root login pop up not stay to put password

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arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-04-06 01:23

manager   ~0021516

Please reboot your system. Does that fix the issue?

Jess Up

Jess Up

2026-04-06 01:23

reporter   ~0021517

This is happening with me too. When I run any program that requires root, the password prompt fails, and it closes.

arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-04-06 01:23

manager   ~0021518

This is an expected side-effect of the latest update of the package polkitd. You need to reboot the system after this upgrade.

It's written among the logs of apt full-upgrade (assuming you ran this command manually in a terminal), but the line is buried among other apt logs, so I guess most people won't see it...

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
[...]
Setting up libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 (127+really127-0kali1)…
Setting up libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 (127+really127-0kali1)…
Setting up polkitd (127+really127-0kali1)…
Upgrading to this polkitd version requires a reboot, please reboot the system when convenient.
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/polkit-agent-helper.socket' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket'.
[...]

Please reboot your system. Does that fix the issue?

krishnendu

krishnendu

2026-04-06 01:23

reporter   ~0021519

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
not working

RDjavi.06

RDjavi.06

2026-04-06 01:23

reporter   ~0021520

sudo

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 New Issue
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Issue generated from: 0009622
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Note Added: 0021516
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Note Added: 0021517
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Note Added: 0021518
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Note Added: 0021519
2026-04-06 01:23 RDjavi.06 Note Added: 0021520