Failure to Enable Extensions without gnome restart

[starr-dusT]

Hello. Love this role as setting keybinds within Gnome is one of my least favorite things! I've noticed issues with enabling extensions, but hopefully I'm just missing something...

If I install and enable extensions like this:

- name: Install gnome extensions
  include_role:
    name: ansible-role-customize-gnome
  vars:
    gnome_extensions:
      # https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator
      - id: 779
        enable: yes
    gnome_user: "{{ user }}"

The playbook fails during the enable task with:

failed: [local] (item=clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": true, "cmd": ["gnome-extensions", "enable", "clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com"], "delta": "0:00:00.004735", "end": "2022-11-20 17:49:04.738565", "item": {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "cmd": ["gnome-shell-extension-tool", "-e", "clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com"], "delta": "0:00:00.094940", "end": "2022-11-20 17:49:04.205121", "failed": false, "failed_when_result": false, "invocation": {"module_args": {"_raw_params": "gnome-shell-extension-tool -e clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com", "_uses_shell": false, "argv": null, "chdir": null, "creates": null, "executable": null, "removes": null, "stdin": null, "stdin_add_newline": true, "strip_empty_ends": true}}, "item": {"enable": true, "id": 779, "name": "clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com", "url": "https://extensions.gnome.org/download-extension/clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com.shell-extension.zip?version_tag=35596"}, "msg": "", "rc": 0, "start": "2022-11-20 17:49:04.110181", "stderr": "gnome-shell-extension-tool is deprecated, use gnome-extensions instead\nExtension “clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com” does not exist", "stderr_lines": ["gnome-shell-extension-tool is deprecated, use gnome-extensions instead", "Extension “clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com” does not exist"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}, "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 2, "start": "2022-11-20 17:49:04.733830", "stderr": "Extension “clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com” does not exist", "stderr_lines": ["Extension “clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com” does

The error indicates it cannot find an installed extension to enable and if I manually list extensions with gnome-extenions list the desired extension isn't listed. If I restart Gnome and run the playbook again the enable works and the extension is shown with gnome-extenions list. Is this expected behavior or am I missing something here? Thanks!

[PeterMosmans]

Hey @starr-dusT - thanks for reporting this issue. The extension should be available, without the need for restarting Gnome. I'll classify this as a bug, and will look into it - although it may take a while.
Which OS / Gnome version are you using?

[starr-dusT]

Hey @PeterMosmans. I'm using Fedora 37 along with the Gnome it comes with (43.1). When I have a moment I'll try on another distro/gnome version and see what happens. Thanks for looking into it! It isn't really a huge deal. For now I'm not enabling the extensions through Ansible then enabling them in the extension manager after a reboot.

[CubicrootXYZ]

Can confirm this happens on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Gnome 42.2 too.

[PeterMosmans]

Thanks for reporting @starr-dusT / @CubicrootXYZ . I'm finally taking a look at this

[PeterMosmans]

Hey @CubicrootXYZ / @starr-dusT : I've implemented 2 changes in the extension:

• Gnome Shell will now be restarted when a new extension has been detected
• A list of changed extensions will be shown
  If you could test whether this branch fixes your issue before I merge it, that would be awesome: thanks!

https://github.com/PeterMosmans/ansible-role-customize-gnome/compare/enforce-gnome-restart

[CubicrootXYZ]

@PeterMosmans tried it, still getting the error message but ansible continues now and everything gets installed properly.

[PeterMosmans]

Thanks for testing - yeah, the error still shows (I'm a bit hesitant to suppress that), but at least all updates are recognized after 'force reloading' Gnome.
I'll merge this fix and publish a new version. Thanks all for reporting / testing!