Bug#1128230: Permission to use the camera portal denied: "Permission denied"

[Marco d'Itri]

Package: gnome-snapshot
Version: 49.1-1
Severity: important

snapshot does not work, asking to "allow camera usage in Settings":

2026-02-16T16:51:37.103672Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Snapshot (org.gnome.Snapshot)
2026-02-16T16:51:37.103695Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Version: 49.1
2026-02-16T16:51:37.103700Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Datadir: /usr/share/snapshot
2026-02-16T16:51:37.662815Z  INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Creating a org.freedesktop.portal.Request /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/1_896/ashpd_Slc3594xq5
2026-02-16T16:51:37.664593Z  INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Received signal 'Response' on 'org.freedesktop.portal.Request'
2026-02-16T16:51:37.664626Z  INFO ashpd::proxy: Calling method org.freedesktop.portal.Camera:OpenPipeWireRemote
2026-02-16T16:51:37.664990Z  WARN snapshot::widgets::camera: Permission to use the camera portal denied: "Permission denied"

The "Cameras Access" toggle in open gnome-control-center is enabled,
but the list of "Permitted Apps" is empty and I get these messages:

17:56:14.4014     cc-privacy-panel[19091]: WARNING: failed to get enum property 'auth-mode'
17:56:14.4514     cc-privacy-panel[19091]: WARNING: Failed fetch permissions from flatpak permission store: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera
17:56:14.4515     cc-privacy-panel[19091]: WARNING: Failed fetch permissions from flatpak permission store: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for location

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.18.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-snapshot depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]            0.49.0-4
ii  gstreamer1.0-gl                                        1.28.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-gtk4                                      0.14.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-libcamera                                 0.7.0-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-pipewire                                  1.4.10-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad                               1.28.0-1
ii  libadwaita-1-0                                         1.9~beta-1
ii  libc6                                                  2.42-13
ii  libfontconfig1                                         2.17.1-5
ii  libgcc-s1                                              15.2.0-13
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                                        2.87.2-3
ii  libgraphene-1.0-0                                      1.10.8-5+b1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0                         1.28.0-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                                      1.28.0-2
ii  libgtk-4-1                                             4.20.3+ds-3
ii  liblcms2-2                                             2.17-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                         1.57.0-1
ii  libseccomp2                                            2.6.0-2+b1
ii  pipewire                                               1.4.10-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gnome [xdg-desktop-portal-backend]  49.0-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk [xdg-desktop-portal-backend]    1.15.3-2

Versions of packages gnome-snapshot recommends:
pn  libcamera-ipa         <none>
ii  libspa-0.2-libcamera  1.4.10-1

gnome-snapshot suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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