maniacx
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7 months ago Hello Radeox. I was curious, so I fired up Virtual Machine and installed NixOS. This was my first time using NixOS, and wow. I was really struggling with. Even simple task, like installing gettext, or getting logs from gnome-shell, I wasnt successfull. Nothing is straight forward and after experimenting a bit, I tried to iron out issue with the extension one by one. here what I found.
First I found there was is no "/usr/local/bin/" folder. But seems like the installer.sh creates if it installer works.
Secondly I found that none of the script runs directly due to bash enviroment, hence the extension fails to install.
In other system, bash script can executed directly, which this extension relies on
Example you run /usr/local/bin/batteryhealthchargingctl-radeox or ./installer.sh --tool-user radeox install. On Nixos it wont run and need to prefix command with bash or sh
Workaround was to edit shebang on the top of these to files to run is without bash prefix
Need to change from #!/bin/bash to #!/usr/bin/env bash. After doing this installation of Polkit from extension preference was possible.
And third Polkit rules are added differently it seems. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Polkit I did tried to add the rule to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but it still wont apply.
Just to rule out the possiblilty of issue my extension script, I experimented polkit with fdisk -l command, which requires root permission to get information on disk drives.
In my system Fedora in terminal typing pkexec /usr/bin/fdisk -l should ask for password and execute it.
I changed the contents of /usr/local/bin/batteryhealthchargingctl-radeox to this
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.policykit.exec" &&
action.lookup("program") == "/usr/bin/fdisk" &&
subject.isInGroup("radeox"))
{
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});Now in terminal if I run pkexec /usr/bin/fdisk -l, it will execute without the password with root previleges.
I tried the same as per Nixos documentation by adding the rule to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix but couldnt get pkexec fdisk command working without password
security.polkit.enable = true
security.polkit.extraConfig = ''
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.policykit.exec" &&
action.lookup("program") == "/nix/store/yhd9h9d140z2ydh9j4h8s2lmxihy29g8-system-path/bin/fdisk" &&
subject.isInGroup("radeox"))
{
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
})
'';Finally. Some hurdles preventing me to do any sort of debugging in NixOS as I could not figure out how to
- install gettext (Command in fedora
sudo dnf install gettext) - Read gnome-shell logs (Command in fedora
journalctl -f -o cat /usr/bin/gnome-shell - Copy files from Fedora to NixOS on Gnome Boxes VM (NixOS have even blocked copy/pasting and sending files from host to guest).
- Offcourse how to correctly apply polkit rules.
Radeox
piegamesde
Hello! I don't know if it's a NixOS related issue or something else but when I try to install the required scripts using the extension menu I get an "Unexpected error".
I've had a look at the install scripts in
tooldirectory I tried to run it withsudo bash installer.sh installand it successfully creates 2 files:/usr/local/bin/batteryhealthchargingctl-root/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-dem.batteryhealthcharging.setthreshold-root.rulesThen it exits normally without errors but when I try to enable the extension or logging in again I get the same error that warns me to install the scripts.
I tried running it with the
--tool-user radeoxoption but with the same results.Maybe I'm missing something but my laptop should be supported and I verified that I can manually set conservative_mode from shell.