Fern doesn't start in last release of Kali (2020.1)

[Antani2]

Fern doesn't start if started from menu.

Command launched by the menu is: pkexec fern-wifi-cracker

I found it starts from command line with "fern-wifi-cracker", but only with standard user, no root (and that's ok)

modifying the menu deleting "pkexec" doesn't work.

executing pkexec fern-wifi-cracker gives this error:

antani@lol:~$ pkexec fern-wifi-cracker
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.kali.pkexec.fern-wifi-cracker ===
Authentication is required to run /usr/bin/fern-wifi-cracker as root
Authenticating as: antani,,, (antani)
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.


This is not a good way to publish a new release

[micnorian14]

It's the new "No Root" "Feature" everyone and their mom knew would cause issues. Particularly for legacy apps. Can confirm Fern works fine in Kali 2019.4