org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control request failed: not authorized

Hey, since this morning (i assume since yesterday morning, did a update there) i am unable to change any settings via the gui for the networking, wifi on/off, connect to network, connect to lan etc. everything errors out with "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control request failed: not authorized", is there anything i could do to gain control again of the network-manager? also i can't connect to the lan of my school because of by default my laptop uses my home network config (dns static) which is not the case for the school network, hence i can only use the internet over usb tethering over my mobile data
edit: this is the message from the gui:
2022-09-16_08-30
second edit: just looked into the settings manager to look at my account if because of some weird bug the gui root privileges have been revoked, but my account does not show up in the account management section, tho i am able to use sudo like normal:


and the third edit, can't have enough edits now can you:
while i tried mounting a usb stick via the gui i got this error:
An error occurred while accessing 'Ventoy', the system responded: You are not authorized to perform this operation: Not authorized to perform operation (polkit authority not available and caller is not uid 0)

inxi:

System:
  Kernel: 5.19.8-hardened2-1-hardened arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 12.2.0 parameters: pti=on page_alloc.shuffle=1
    BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-hardened
    root=UUID=d16ddc96-5d12-402f-bbcb-9fa585484f0b rw rootflags=subvol=@
    cryptdevice=UUID=3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312:luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
    root=/dev/mapper/luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
    rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.6 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82C7 v: Lenovo V15-ADA
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo V15-ADA
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: LENOVO v: E8CN30WW date: 07/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.5 Wh (91.8%) condition: 35.4/35.3 Wh (100.1%)
    volts: 8.6 min: 7.6 model: CPT-COS L16C2PB1 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
    status: charging cycles: 46
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check gen: 1 level: v3 built: 2019
    process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x18 (24) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8108109
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB
    L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1594 high: 2332 min/max: 1400/2100 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2332 2: 2100
    3: 1400 4: 1400 5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1323 8: 1400 bogomips: 33550
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
    disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
    process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5a08 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1013x285mm (39.88x11.22")
    s-diag: 1052mm (41.43")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 pos: right model: Idek Iiyama
    PL2482H serial: <filter> built: 2013 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94
    gamma: 1.2 size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.5") ratio: 16:9
    modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP pos: primary,left model: BOE Display 0x0812
    built: 2018 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.47
    5.19.8-hardened2-1-hardened) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel
    alternate: snd_rn_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x,snd_acp_pci,snd_sof_amd_renoir
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.8-hardened2-1-hardened running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.57 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet type: USB driver: ax88179_178a
    bus-ID: 2-3:3 chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  IF: enp3s0f3u3 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: enp3s0f3u4 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Samsung GT-I9070 (network tethering USB debugging enabled)
    type: USB driver: rndis_host,usbfs bus-ID: 1-4:10 chip-ID: 04e8:6864
    class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0cf3:e300 class-ID: e001
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 700.51 GiB used: 367.61 GiB (52.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZALQ512HALU-000L2 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: BL2QFXV7 temp: 23.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT240BX500SSD1
    size: 223.57 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 052
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 367.61 GiB
    (78.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 736 KiB
    (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 367.61
    GiB (78.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 367.61
    GiB (78.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 367.61
    GiB (78.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
    mapped: luks-3c647ba3-56c7-43a5-bafc-5f6213b05312
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 17.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
    mapped: luks-48d04c79-6793-4578-a7bd-b7f3baa922dc
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 280 Uptime: 50m wakeups: 64526 Memory: 17.45 GiB used: 3.62 GiB
  (20.7%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1475
  libs: 374 tools: octopi,paru Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
  inxi: 3.3.21
e[1;34mGaruda (2.6.7-1):e[0m
e[1;34m  System install date:e[0m     2022-06-18
e[1;34m  Last full system update:e[0m 2022-09-15
e[1;34m  Is partially upgraded:  e[0m No
e[1;34m  Relevant software:      e[0m NetworkManager
e[1;34m  Windows dual boot:      e[0m Probably (Run as root to verify)
e[1;34m  Snapshots:              e[0m Snapper
e[1;34m  Failed units:           e[0m shadow.service

I think you should check in your pacman.log what was updated in the last update.
It could be a polkit (or SELinux considering the hardened kernel?) issue.
I see this was updated on 06-Sep-22 (I don't know if this was in your latest update).
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/polkit-kde-agent/
One thing you could do, is to check if the issue occurs also in a non-hardened kernel.
In addition to that, you could check if you have pending pacnew files to merge.

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Well, I think there is something else to be investigated:

v/s
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups#Automatic_integrity_checks
And verify the integrity of the user database in general.

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interesting, i seemed to have installed a package that replaced polkit, named polkit-consolekit, so i reinstalled polkit and it worked again, ill check for the integrity in a bit, as long as it runs like i want it to that's not top one priority

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easy fix, user 'ntp': directory '/var/lib/ntp' does not exist' was in the status of the package, installed ntp and it worked, so it was just not installed, maybe someone forgot to add it to the default/required packages?

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ntp is not a default package, and I see the user should be part of it and also that directory, mentioned many times here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_Time_Protocol_daemon#Usage
See also Package contents here including the directory:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ntp/
So it must have been deleted for whatever reasons...
All good anyway...

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