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fix(snapshots): un-break the GUI — polkit agent + launcher, not an override
Re-diagnosis of the "btrfs-assistant 2.2 segfaults on launch" bug, and
the fix is not the planned nixpkgs override:

1. gdb: the crash is btrfs_util_subvolume_iterator_next() —
   libbtrfsutil's UNPRIVILEGED subvolume-iteration path in btrfs-progs
   6.17.1 (upstream-fixed after 6.17.1, kdave/btrfs-progs 886571653).
   Symbol versions were checked and match: not ABI/link drift.
2. VM A/B on real btrfs: as root it works (exit 0); as a user it
   segfaults (139). The pkexec launcher runs it as root — so the GUI
   path was fine all along, except…
3. …the distro shipped NO polkit authentication agent: every pkexec
   prompt in the session failed silently. That is the actual root
   cause of "the GUI doesn't open".

Shipped: hyprpolkitagent (Hyprland's Qt agent — the prompt is
Stylix-themed) via exec-once in hyprland.nix; `nomarchy-menu snapshot`
prefers btrfs-assistant-launcher again, with the nomarchy-snapshots
fzf flow kept as fallback (and for SSH); checks.snapshot-gui guards
the root path + offscreen GUI event loop on a real btrfs volume so a
lock bump can't silently regress it. No btrfs-progs patch: all our
flows are root-side; the unprivileged fix arrives with a lock bump.

Verified: V0 (flake check) + V2 (snapshot-gui check, executed green) +
V1 (HM generation builds; hyprland.conf carries the agent exec-once;
generated menu passes bash -n with the launcher wiring). Remaining V3
queued: first on-hardware themed polkit prompt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 10:07:40 +01:00

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Hardware queue — V3 checks only a human can run

Everything shipped at V1/V2 whose final verification needs real hardware. Agents append (newest at the bottom of a section) with exact steps; Bernardo runs them and either checks off ([x] + date + verdict) or files the failure as a NOW bug in BACKLOG.md. Machines: the AMD dev box (Ryzen AI laptop: AMD + fingerprint + NPU), the Latitude 5410 (Intel QA machine), the T14s (webcam case).

Any machine (dev box is fine)

  • Battery charge limit re-apply on unplugsudo nixos-rebuild switch with power.batteryChargeLimit = 80, physically unplug/replug AC, confirm charge_control_end_threshold re-reads 80. (udev trigger already VM-verified.)
  • SSH_AUTH_SOCK for GUI clients — after relogin, launch a GUI git client (or rofi-launched terminal-less app) and confirm it reaches gpg-agent's SSH socket without an interactive shell parent.
  • Night-light full cycle — first menu enable rebuilds + hyprsunset starts; later toggles are instant (no rebuild); an off survives reboot (ExecCondition); stopping hyprsunset restores gamma.
  • Auto-timezone — enable from the menu; confirm geoclue finds the zone, /etc/localtime updates, and the Waybar clock refreshes (SIGUSR2 watcher) — also after a manual timedatectl set-timezone.
  • Keyboard hotplug picker (re-verify after in-flake graduation) — plug an external keyboard post-login, pick a layout in rofi, confirm it applies per-device only, persists in settings.keyboard.devices, and graduates into a device{} block on the next rebuild.
  • Snapshots restore/rollbacknomarchy-menu snapshot now opens the btrfs-assistant GUI: a themed polkit prompt must appear (hyprpolkitagent — first on-hardware outing) and the GUI must open as root. Also exercise the fzf fallback in a terminal (sudo nomarchy-snapshots): browse/diff, restore a file (undochange), and a root-config rollback behind the typed-yes gate. Bonus check: any other pkexec flow now prompts instead of silently failing.
  • Update awareness — with nomarchy.updates.enable, let the timer fire (or start the unit): indicator appears only when inputs are behind, notification only on count growth, click opens the upgrade flow.
  • VPN menu live paths — import a real WireGuard .conf and an .ovpn via System → VPN, toggle up/down (● / ○ state), and the Tailscale block: up/down + exit-node without sudo (operator grant).
  • Printer menu — with nomarchy.services.printing, System → Printers opens system-config-printer; add a printer, test page.
  • GRUB UEFI ISO theme render — boot the ISO on UEFI hardware: composed splash background, palette menu in the lower third, accent timeout bar.
  • Visual theme pass — live ISO: all six identity themes (bars) + the four authored rofi .rasi (nord/retro-82/lumon/kanagawa) look right, not just parse.
  • Auto-commit on a real machine — System Auto-commit toggles on (row shows state, notification fires); a theme apply from SUPER+T then shows a nomarchy: apply theme … commit in ~/.nomarchy (git log); unrelated dirty files in the checkout stay uncommitted; toggle off is itself the last commit. Also: the "Auto timezone (on/off)" row label now reflects the real state (the = true comparison fix).

AMD dev box only

  • AMD runtime bits — VA-API (vainfo → radeonsi), amd-pstate EPP active and PPD switching governors; opt-ins: ROCm (rocminfo, a GPU PyTorch/Ollama smoke) and the XDNA NPU driver loading.
  • Fingerprintfprintd-enroll + (opt-in PAM) login/sudo.

Latitude 5410 only

  • Media keys + gestures (from dccceb4) — volume/brightness keys drive the OSD; touchpad gestures work.
  • v1 QA batch on-hardware pass (583708d batch was QEMU-verified) — general smoke before the next main → v1 promotion.

T14s only

  • Webcam IR-hide end-to-end on Nomarchy — installer detects the RGB+IR pair, bakes hardware.camera.hideIrSensor; wpctl status shows one colour source; an app picker lists one camera; Howdy-style direct /dev/video2 reads still work.