Fail to update on gnome-shell 43.3

[bartoszek]

I'm experiencing an update problem after the gnome-shell 43.3 update.
I'm getting message about haguashi getting an update in next login session

But each consecutive login fails with journal showing JS error about the failed update of haguashi because of the nonempty icon folder.

mar 21 10:53:18 grafZero gnome-shell[894950]: Failed to install extension updates for .gse-haguichi-indicator@ztefn.github.com
mar 21 10:53:18 grafZero gnome-shell[894950]: JS ERROR: Gio.IOErrorEnum: Błąd podczas usuwania pliku /home/bartus/.local/share/gnome-shell/extension-updates/.gse-haguichi-indicator@ztefn.github.com/icons: Katalog nie jest pusty
                                              recursivelyDeleteDir@resource:///org/gnome/shell/misc/fileUtils.js:48:13
                                              recursivelyDeleteDir@resource:///org/gnome/shell/misc/fileUtils.js:44:33
                                              _installExtensionUpdates/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:588:27
                                              collectFromDatadirs@resource:///org/gnome/shell/misc/fileUtils.js:28:28
                                              _installExtensionUpdates@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:574:19
                                              init@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:56:14
                                              _initializeUI@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:309:22
                                              start@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:186:5
                                              @resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js:6:17
mar 21 10:53:18 grafZero gnome-shell[894950]: Execution of main.js threw exception: Module resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js threw an exception

Removing the icons folder gets me back at square on.

[ztefn]

I experienced the same thing on my Arch test machine and hoped something was just messed up locally on that machine. Unfortunately it appears something is completely broken with the GNOME shell extension updates process. I found these identical issues:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1998963
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282470
• Extension update caused GDM login to fail tuberry/extension-list#15

The third issue reports the issue is triggered by symbolic links. Haguichi indicator uses a symbolic links for the haguichi-connecting-3-symbolic.svg icon. I will drop the symbolic link for this icon and push a new update to extensions.gnome.org. It will have to await review before being published. For now I have disabled version 20 so that update should be held back from now on.

[ztefn]

The updated version is already live on extensions.gnome.org. It was auto-approved (probably because there were no code changes).

However this update will likely still fail, because the issue is with the old version its trying to delete. So you will need to remove both the update (in ~.local/share/gnome-shell/extension-updates/) and extension itself (in ~.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/). And then reinstall it, making sure its version 21. Next time in the future when there is an update it should work without issues 🤞️.

[bartoszek]

Thanks for the exhaustive explanation 🥲