Last night I encountered similar bug behavior with a different message.
Several hours after a printing related crash, another orphaned
authentication dialog was painted on top of the gnome shell with the
message:

Please enter your password to access problem reports of system programs

In light of this related problem and Sergey's suggestion of PAM
involvement, I now believe the original bug in this thread is caused by
incorrect handling of PAM by gnome shell. There could also be threading
problems, insofar as the incorrect painting of an orphaned dialog window
seems to occur long after the action that is referenced in the dialog
window.

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Title:
  undismissable, unclickable authentication dialog left on screen (top-
  left corner) after policykit authentication [pushModal: invocation of
  begin_modal failed]

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