@serebit has an open issue on the CoreCtrl issue tracker for this: https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/issues/71

I have the same problem :(

This may very well be a Solus-specific issue, as nobody outside of Solus users seems to be able to corroborate it. I'm not sure what could be causing it, though.

I think the issue is caused from /usr/lib64/kf5/kauth/corectrl_helper.

When corectrl launcher first time, two processes are launcherd:
/usr/lib64/kf5/kauth/corectrl_helper and corectrl.
Next when you close it by clicking Quit from tray icon corectrl is gone but corectrl_helper is still there.
With this procces still in background corectrl will not start next time.
You have to kill corectrl_helper to get corectrl running again.

Seems like it, @algent. I just posted a comment on the gitlab issue with your finding.

Yes, killing corectrl_helper actually makes it run again. But that is when I run it on Plasma machine, when I run it with Budgie I don't see corectrl_helper in my System Monitor.
But if I do sudo killall corectrl_helper it does work even on Budgie.

In T9042#171947, @laky wrote:

Yes, killing corectrl_helper actually makes it run again. But that is when I run it on Plasma machine, when I run it with Budgie I don't see corectrl_helper in my System Monitor.
But if I do sudo killall corectrl_helper it does work even on Budgie.

corectrl_helper doesn't show up in Gnome System Monitor, but it *does* show up in htop.

Sorry I didn't use htop just top.
I will start using htop from now on, seems like a cool thing to have also very lightweight.

@serebit and @laky, both processes are visible fine from "Gnome System Monitor". Just enable "All Processes" from Menu (three dots).

@algent jeez... Thanks dude!! :D

As an update to this, I still have no idea what's causing it. As far as I can tell, our polkit rules for it should be fine, and all of the dependencies are met. I made a comment here with my findings so far.

This issues has been resolved. Not present at this release 30ef21860819.