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elliotp

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[SOLVED] Intellij Idea : Error Creating Textual Authenticating Agent

Attempting to install Python packaging tools under the SDK settings and get this error:

Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process ('/dev/tty'): No such device or address.

I've seen this error mentioned on various boards (to little relevant avail) with programs aside from Intellij as well & am hoping someone might have some insight--

Wish I had more info to offer-- I've been solving all of my Arch install issues on my own and via these boards and am grateful for it.
I'm aware that it's shabby to not have any logs or specific information to offer but I'm not sure where to begin here. Just the error.

I'm imagining I have to configure a path or grant access to the terminal someplace but I'm (again) not sure where to begin--

This is a new Arch install; I've not run Idea on here before.

Would appreciate any ideas--

Thanks.

Last edited by elliotp (2020-12-03 15:12:06)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Intellij Idea : Error Creating Textual Authenticating Agent

From context I'd say it's good that this failed, as this looks like it's attempting to install python modules outside of pacman system wide, which should not be done.

Install the modules you need as packages from the repos, if you really must use pip and other solutions use them in a --user capacity and/or as venv, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Py … management and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Py … nvironment for details.

That for the surrounding disclaimer. The real issue with regards to the error that has happened seems to be that you don't have a polkit agent running for providing root elevation credentials to. Most bigger desktop environments ship with one, if you use something else you'll have to configure an appropriate agent: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … ion_agents

But again, if this is attempting to use pip as root that's a bad idea and will eventually lead to system breakage.

elliotp

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Re: [SOLVED] Intellij Idea : Error Creating Textual Authenticating Agent

Thanks for both answers, super helpful.