fix(gui): run the CAPTCHA page in its own process (B195)

On secureblue, WebKit cannot start the sandbox for the verification page:
bubblewrap is kept from the journal socket, xdg-dbus-proxy fails, and
WebKit ends its process with g_error. The webview lived in pdfs-app, so
the whole app crashed after the sign-in (#29).

- gui: `pdfs-app --human-verification` shows the page in its own window,
  reads the URL on stdin and prints the token on stdout; its logs go to
  stderr
- gui: a child that dies or fails without a token ends the sign-in with a
  message that the page could not be opened, instead of "cancelled"
- i18n: translate the new message in every catalog
- docs: B195 in the bug ledger, the cause and a one-time workaround in
  TROUBLESHOOTING.md, the child process in ARCHITECTURE.md, changelog
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### B195 — What the user sees, in one line
### B196 — What the user sees, in one line
**Status:** Open
**Found:** 2026-10-06, how it was found
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ a live account since.
| Entry | Title |
|---|---|
| [B195](#b195--the-app-crashes-when-proton-asks-for-a-captcha-on-secureblue) | The app crashes when Proton asks for a CAPTCHA on secureblue |
| [B193](#b193--deleting-a-file-whose-create-failed-can-trash-a-file-of-the-users-on-drive) | Deleting a file whose create failed can trash a file of the user's on Drive |
| [B191](#b191--a-file-deleted-after-its-create-failed-and-was-written-again-can-stay-on-drive) | A file deleted after its create failed and was written again can stay on Drive |
| [B190](#b190--a-file-saved-just-before-the-daemon-stops-can-keep-its-old-content-on-drive) | A file saved just before the daemon stops can keep its old content on Drive |
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Newest first.
### B195 — The app crashes when Proton asks for a CAPTCHA on secureblue
**Status:** Fixed (unverified). Nobody has run the fix on secureblue yet.
**Found:** 2026-10-07, [#29](https://github.com/narrrl/proton-drive-linux/issues/29). On
secureblue 44 (a hardened Fedora Atomic), `pdfs-app` aborted a few seconds after the sign-in, with
`bwrap: Can't get type of source /run/systemd/journal/socket: Permission denied` and
`Failed to fully launch dbus-proxy`.
**Where:** `crates/pdfs-gui/src/app/pages/verify.rs`, `crates/pdfs-gui/src/app/pages/login.rs`
**Repro:** Sign in on secureblue from a network Proton asks a CAPTCHA for, such as a VPN.
**Cause.** The CAPTCHA page runs in a WebKitGTK view (B8). Before it loads anything, WebKit starts
its sandbox: bubblewrap, with the journal socket bound in, and `xdg-dbus-proxy`. secureblue keeps
bubblewrap from the socket, the proxy does not start, and WebKit ends its process with `g_error`.
The view was in the app's own process, so the whole app went down, and nothing in our code can
catch that.
**Fix.** The view runs in a child, `pdfs-app --human-verification`, that reads the URL on stdin
and prints the token on stdout. A child that exits without a token after a crash or a non-zero
status ends the sign-in with a message that says the page could not be opened. TROUBLESHOOTING.md
gives the cause and a one-time workaround. The sandbox is not switched off by the app: users choose
a hardened system for that isolation.
**Test:** unit tests `a_window_that_died_fails`, `a_window_closed_without_a_token_cancels`,
`a_token_counts_even_if_the_window_died_after_it` and `the_token_is_found_among_other_output`.
On 2026-10-08 the child ran under real WebKit on Arch against a local page that posts a completion,
and handed back its token.
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### B194 — On a fresh install the tray exits and the Takeout page cannot remember its archives
**Status:** Fixed.