Garuda Assistant Testing - Round 2

[alexjp]

@dalto

Because garuda assistant isn't running as root, I can't make an asynchronous call like that without prompting for a password every time.

it isn't ? in here it asks for root password everytime, and if I don't give it it just closes with a dialog box informing that needs elevated rights.

well, disregard my suggestion of using some kind of cache.... it will complicate things and possibly introduce bugs and etc. I feel I am not really helping anymore.

If I find an error or a crash I will say something. Fun fact .... doing btrfs snapshots for home saved me one file of python code I deleted by mistake !! I think its the first time it happened !

[alexjp]

note:
I was checking my home snappers, and I noticed this:

[[email protected] timers.target.wants]# snapper -c home list
# | Tipo   | Pre # | Date                     | User | Used Space | Cleanup  | Descrição | Userdata
----+--------+-------+--------------------------+------+------------+----------+-----------+---------
0  | single |       |                          | root |            |          | current   |         
1  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 02:00:10 | root |  12,59 MiB | timeline | timeline  |         
3  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 03:00:10 | root |   7,04 MiB | timeline | timeline  |         
4  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 09:00:14 | root | 652,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
5  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 09:01:06 | root | 644,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
6  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 10:00:14 | root | 568,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
7  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 10:01:01 | root | 552,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
8  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 11:00:14 | root | 256,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
9  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 11:01:01 | root | 260,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
10  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 12:00:14 | root |   1,98 MiB | timeline | timeline  |         
11  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 12:01:01 | root | 544,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
12  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 13:00:14 | root | 196,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
13  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 13:01:01 | root | 192,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
14  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 14:00:14 | root | 220,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
15  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 14:01:01 | root | 272,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
16  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 14:11:45 | root | 136,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  |         
17  | single |       | ter 07 set 2021 14:13:33 | root |  48,00 KiB | timeline | timeline  | 

notice that there is a snapshot at 10:00:14 and then at 10:01:01 ( and in other hours too ).

can this be related to systemd-timers and cronie being enabled at the same time ? I disabled cronie, lets see how it works in a few hours.

[dalto]

@librewish

pressing delete snapshot without selecting any snapshot closes assistant
instead it shoud tell the user to select snapshot from list

I fixed it locally. Next time I commit and push changes that will show up.

@librewish

and the description when restoring snapshot in mounted system should be that boot into the snapshot or boot into live cd to restore snapshot

OK.

[dalto]

@alexjp

it isn't ? in here it asks for root password everytime, and if I don't give it it just closes with a dialog box informing that needs elevated rights.

It creates a process as root but doesn't run the application as root. Unfortunately, a limitation of that process is that it can't be used asynchronously.

@alexjp

can this be related to systemd-timers and cronie being enabled at the same time ?

It could be.

[alexjp]

@dalto

It could be.

it seems to be ... this hour only created one snapshot ( I disabled cronie and left systemd timers ).
maybe a check if both are running ? ( i didn't do anything to install and configure the timers on cronie , does snapper install both ?)

[dalto]

@alexjp

does snapper install both ?)

Apparently it does:

snapper /etc/conf.d/snapper
snapper /etc/cron.daily/snapper
snapper /etc/cron.hourly/snapper

[tbg]

@dalto

@librewish

Do you have qgroups Quota enabled?

Enabling it dropped it from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

Just FYI enabling qgroups on some systems negatively impacts performance. I keep it disabled on my system to help prevent stutters/freezes.

[dalto]

I removed the cancel button and changed the text on the button at the top. Hopefully that will make that part more obvious.

[alexjp]

nice @dalto ! let me know when to test

[smoky]

@ dalto
is it intentional that only 1 snapshot can be deleted ? if i select many snapshoots its only delete one . So if i want delete 10 i must one by one

PS: great work

[dalto]

@smoky

is it intentional that only 1 snapshot can be deleted ?

Yes.

@smoky

if i select many snapshoots its only delete one . So if i want delete 10 i must one by one

I never considered that you could select more than one item. I am on my phone right now but I will look at it tomorrow and see how hard it is to handle multiple deletions.

[alexjp]

just checked on a new garuda assistant update:

thanks, its better, I think that if I didn't knew, I would understand that the top row/section does the "canceling and the save".

Thanks @dalto, good work !

[dalto]

@smoky

So if i want delete 10 i must one by one

Not anymore

[TilliDie]

Just had a play with the updated garuda assistant.
Nice job @dalto .
Seems to work really intuitively, all i need to do is break it now

[librewish]

hblock check box isn't working

[dalto]

Works fine here. It takes a long time though and shows no status. I should probably use a terminal for that so you can see progress.

[librewish]

well it doesn't work here even though I get the dialog about it succeeding
I don't see anything changing in /etc/hosts

[dalto]

Do you have hblock installed?

I just pushed the change to make it run in a terminal. See if you get an error in the terminal.

[smoky]

Works great .. thx for add it