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Fixing the VFS5011 fingerprint reader on Omarchy
My laptop has a Validity VFS5011 fingerprint reader and I wanted fingerprint auth on Omarchy. Enrolling worked fine. The verify right after it didn't, and the Omarchy setup script took that as a hard fail and never wrote the PAM config, even though my print was already enrolled. Turns out the reader just wedges after enrollment. A USB reset fixes it.
The symptom
Enrollment goes through, and the verification fails with this:
failed to claim device: GDBus.Error:net.reactiva...
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