Cameras won't work due to missing permissions

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Hi,
The applications which try to use cameras (browsers with the pipewire camera support enabled, Snapshot) fail to get permissions, despite the enabled checkboxes in the Gnome privacy settings.

What could have been broken?

An example of Snapshot logs:

2025-03-14T11:02:20.615297Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Snapshot (org.gnome.Snapshot)    
2025-03-14T11:02:20.615314Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Version: 47.1    
2025-03-14T11:02:20.615317Z  INFO snapshot::application::imp: Datadir: /usr/share/snapshot    
(snapshot:78868): Adwaita-WARNING **: 12:02:20.668: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:802: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:834: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers
2025-03-14T11:02:21.092507Z  INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Creating a org.freedesktop.portal.Request /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/1_221/ashpd_UoG7Auahxc
2025-03-14T11:02:21.093032Z  WARN ashpd::error: Hack! The parsing of the iface name has failed: iface Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/1_221/ashpd_UoG7Auahxc, error details Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/1_221/ashpd_UoG7Auahxc”
2025-03-14T11:02:21.094616Z  INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Received signal 'Response' on 'org.freedesktop.portal.Request'
2025-03-14T11:02:21.094669Z  INFO ashpd::proxy: Calling method org.freedesktop.portal.Camera:OpenPipeWireRemote
2025-03-14T11:02:21.095342Z  WARN snapshot::widgets::camera: Permission to use the camera portal denied: Permission denied

Thanks.

2

More context: if I turn off camera in the privacy settings, Snapshot works, but not the browsers.

3

Seems to be separate problems for Snapshot and for the browsers.

4

This D-Bus manipulation has fixed the problem:

I used D-Spy tool for convenience.