Policy was updated, please run this program again

[ellet0]

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• I've searched the issue tracker and is pretty sure that there's no duplicate issue already filed
• I've built the latest development snapshot using the instructions in README and verified that the issue can still be reproduced (for bug reports)

Issue Reproduce Instructions

1. Make sure you are on Fedora 38
2. Launch WoeUSB by running woeusbgui

Expected Behavior

Should be able to run the gui without errors

Current Behavior

WoeUSB errors with message "Policy was updated, please run this program again"

Info of My Environment

WoeUSB Version

0.2.12

WoeUSB Source

Built using:

sudo dnf install git p7zip p7zip-plugins python3-pip python3-wxpython4
sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng

Information about the Operating System

Description: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)

[Vysp3r]

Same problem for me

[demirdegerli]

Same problem but I found a workaround: pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY woeusbgui

[jquast]

If you see this error, it may be caused by any number of errors that is hidden by the exception handler that causes this message, "policy was updated".

To discover the true issue, modify the woeusbgui code as follows,

diff --git a/WoeUSB/woeusbgui b/WoeUSB/woeusbgui
index ea4f17c..e357a8f 100755
--- a/WoeUSB/woeusbgui
+++ b/WoeUSB/woeusbgui
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ else:
 
         WoeUSB.utils.update_policy_to_allow_for_running_gui_as_root(__file__)
         print("Policy was updated, please run this program again")
+        raise

That is, add the raise statement to the bottom of the file, and the original error is restored. In my case, $DISPLAY was not properly set:

$ woeusbgui 
Policy was updated, please run this program again
Unable to access the X Display, is $DISPLAY set properly?

[xavierigor]

Running as superuser fixes this for me

sudo woeusbgui

[Stopfield]

The command sudo woeusbgui from above helped me as well. So, I think it's probably something related to authentication.