Authentication required to mount /dev/loop0

Maik Qualmann metzpinguin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 07:15:22 BST 2025


We're not looking directly at /dev/loop0. However, this is the first time I've 
heard of this problem. I imagine it's caused by the Solid KF6 API. Using 
Solid, we retrieve the list of available drives. This is a normal process for 
retrieving the collection.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 17. April 2025, 02:19:46 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
digikam at sritch.com:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:42:44 -0000
> 
> digikam at sritch.com wrote:
> > New laptop running Manjaro + XFCE + DK 8.6.0 QT6 appimage.
> > 
> > I get the following message:
> > 	Authentication required to mount /dev/loop0
> > 
> > - DK will start and work regardless whether I enter my password or
> > 
> >   not.
> > 
> > - DK will only ask for the authentication the 1st time I use DK for
> > 
> >   that day (I shut down the laptop at the end of the day).
> > 
> > - Older Lenovo laptop with opensuse leap 15.6 + XFCE + DK 8.6.0 QT5
> > 
> >   appimage does not ask for the authentication (qt6 does not work).
> 
> Further info:
> 
> I have a few other programs that are packaged as appimage, including
> darktable-5.0.1, gimp-2.10.25, czkawka, ungoogled-chromium...
> 
> and none of them ask to mount: /dev/loop0






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