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fprintd times out

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On login, sudo call, or any authentication attempt, the process hangs for a while, then prompts for password. Expected behavior: immediately display fingerprint prompt. Upon investigation, fprintd-verify, fprintd-enroll, fprintd-delete, and fprintd-list all time out with the following error:
$ fprintd-list $USERNAME # example command
Failed to get Fprintd manager: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.reactivated.Fprint: Timeout was reached
My fingerprint sensor is supported; fprintd, fprintd-pam, and libfprint were installed from official repositories on distro install. All are configured as default when installed, with no modificatons. Running Fedora 42. This behavior was not present a week ago, when I used fprintd-enroll right-middle-finger to register a fingerprint. It developed sometime after a system upgrade from Fedora 41 to 42.
Asked by Akhil Pillai (1 rep)
Apr 23, 2025, 05:37 PM
Last activity: Apr 25, 2025, 01:51 AM