I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a new partition less than a week ago. I have not yet gotten all the basic stuff to work. But now, from time to time, 20.04 pops up a small window saying "Authentication is required to run gvfsd-admin daemon". But even though I enter my Ubuntu password and press it will not go away. Not even if I press the Cancel-button. Which, by the way, is a bit difficult to do, because instead you activate functions in a window BEHIND the authentication-window(!!) The only way of making the screen usable again is to restart Ubuntu... VERY annoying!
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This worked for me:
... a workaround (from Aleksandar Nikolic):
I managed to remove it by pressing the Alt + F2, type "r" in the command box, and press enter. GNOME should restart and the window will disappear.
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1was worried this was going to nuke all my open apps, but no, just got rid of the auth popup – rob Mar 02 '22 at 08:57
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Another work around for use within the terminal... in case you can't remember the other one, this one will be in your history and can search for it when you need it.
killall -3 gnome-shell
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rm $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/*Another way to check if problem is in $HOME create an test user. – nobody Sep 13 '20 at 14:27