Created attachment 163395 [details] empty partion manager Using Fedora Kinoite 39. When brew/linuxbrew is installed and source it in `.bashrc`. Partition Manager is empty. It literally shows no disk. But when the source line is removed from .bashrc. Everything works correctly. My guess is when some libraries are installed from brew. Partition manager conflicts with it. Instead of using system library. It uses library from linuxbrew. And can't show any drive. Several people using steam deck has faced similar issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/13pix57/kde_partition_manager_is_not_displaying_any/
If it helps. These are my brew libraries. ❯ brew list alsa-lib freetype krb5 libsamplerate libxcrypt mbedtls pixman tree-sitter aom frei0r ladspa-sdk libsndfile libxcursor mpdecimal pulseaudio unbound aribb24 fribidi lame libsodium libxdmcp mpfr python-argcomplete unibilium berkeley-db@5 gcc leptonica libsoxr libxext mpg123 python-certifi unzip binutils gettext libarchive libtasn1 libxfixes msgpack python-mutagen util-linux brotli giflib libass libtermkey libxi ncurses python-packaging vamp-plugin-sdk bzip2 glib libb2 libtiff libxinerama neofetch python@3.11 webp c-ares gmp libbluray libtirpc libxml2 neovim python@3.12 x264 ca-certificates gnutls libcap libtool libxrandr nettle rav1e x265 cairo graphite2 libedit libunibreak libxrender node readline xinput chezmoi harfbuzz libevent libunistring libxscrnsaver open-mpi rubberband xorgproto cjson highway libffi libuv libxv opencore-amr sdl2 xvid dav1d htop libice libvidstab libxxf86vm openexr snappy xz dbus hwloc libidn2 libvmaf little-cms2 openjpeg speex yt-dlp expat icu4c libmpc libvorbis lm-sensors openssl@3 speexdsp zeromq fastfetch imath libnghttp2 libvpx luajit opus sqlite zimg ffmpeg isl libnsl libvterm luv p11-kit srt zlib fftw jpeg-turbo libogg libx11 lz4 pango svt-av1 zstd flac jpeg-xl libpng libxau lzo pcre2 tesseract fontconfig json-c librist libxcb m4 pipx theora
That links says it's util-linux. And that makes sense. util-linux is used to scan for devices. In particular, to get device list partition manager runs: lsblk --nodeps --paths --sort name --json --output type,name What does it output on your system?
(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #2) > That links says it's util-linux. And that makes sense. util-linux is used to > scan for devices. > > In particular, to get device list partition manager runs: > > lsblk --nodeps --paths --sort name --json --output type,name > > What does it output on your system? I get this ``` ❯ lsblk --nodeps --paths --sort name --json --output type,name { "blockdevices": [ { "type": "disk", "name": "/dev/sda" },{ "type": "disk", "name": "/dev/sdb" },{ "type": "disk", "name": "/dev/zram0" } ] } ```
Hmm, that does look fine, so that's strange... Anything interesting stdout/stderr if you run KPMCORE_DEBUG=1 partitionmanager It should print the list of commands it is running... We can then try to run them manually
Oh, it's probably because of the prefix. That reddit thread says: "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew" prefix is not one of the trusted command prefixes By default partitionmanager only allows calling commands from / and /usr prefixes. That is for security reasons, specifically to avoid accidentally running non-system commands (that might be malicious) as root. Which is kind of exactly what you are trying to do with homebrew. Partition Manager notices that you are running it from somewhere untrusted and aborts. You need to add your prefix to src/util/trustedprefixes and recompile it.
Or you can run it with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin partitionmanager
What should be improved though is reporting back error to GUI rather than failing silently. That was already on the planned for future (but I have no ETA for it).
(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #6) > Or you can run it with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin partitionmanager This works. Can you force it automatically to use the system libraries? It should check if system path exist. And try to use them instead of user one.
(In reply to Zihad from comment #8) > (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #6) > > Or you can run it with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin partitionmanager > > This works. > Can you force it automatically to use the system libraries? It should check > if system path exist. And try to use them instead of user one. Hmm, yes, I was just thinking about this too... I think it should be possible.
Git commit 6e7efe97c29c4bdab38388a6931df379dd2a8d3b by Andrius Štikonas. Committed on 26/11/2023 at 02:09. Pushed by stikonas into branch 'master'. Only search for binaries in trusted prefixes. Untrusted prefixes are blocked by external command helper anyway. M +10 -3 src/util/externalcommand.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/kpmcore/-/commit/6e7efe97c29c4bdab38388a6931df379dd2a8d3b