| Summary: | Plasmashell fails when plasmoid files are symlinked | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Soup <bmanbros> |
| Component: | Brightness and Color widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | natalie_clarius, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.2.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | NixOS | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | The specific errors output by running "plasmawindowed org.kde.plasma.brightness" | ||
This looks like a distro-specific tooling or packaging issue. I'd suggest talking to the NixOS folks about it. |
Created attachment 175009 [details] The specific errors output by running "plasmawindowed org.kde.plasma.brightness" SUMMARY On NixOS, if you choose to use an overlay to rebuild something like say, powerdevil, to re-enable ddcutil support, the plasmoids it provides break because the overlay symlinks the individual files, which plasmashell errors out on, same goes with the plasmawindowed debugger. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Build any plasma component that provides plasmoids with a NixOS overlay. 2. Restart any relevant services, such as plasmashell. 3. Attempt to open a plasmoid provided by the component. OBSERVED RESULT The plasmoid is replaced with an error message that it "does not exist". EXPECTED RESULT The plasmoid loads as expected. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: NixOS unstable 24.11 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The override in question, which is added to the configuration.nix's import list: let powerdevil-overlay = final: prev: { kdePackages = prev.kdePackages // { powerdevil = prev.kdePackages.powerdevil.overrideAttrs (old: { buildInputs = old.buildInputs ++ [ final.ddcutil ]; }); }; }; in { hardware.i2c.enable = true; nixpkgs.overlays = [ powerdevil-overlay ]; }