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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 926668dc9b fix: make an existing classroom converge into the Plasma appliance
A real room upgraded to 0.1.45 and came up as stock Debian Plasma with
the old Waybar across the top, mako still catching notifications, and a
lock screen on an account that has no password.

The cause was one line, and it was in the lab: the harness handed the
session under test XDG_CONFIG_DIRS by hand, so every result it had ever
produced was a result about a machine somebody had already configured.
On a machine SDDM starts the session through PAM, PAM does not read
/etc/environment.d, and Debian's own plasma-workspace env.sh then set the
variable from scratch — so the classroom's settings directory was not in
the cascade at all. No layout, no lock policy, no Kiosk restrictions.

The settings now arrive the way Plasma delivers them, through a file in
/etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env. Around that: the look and feel is
immutable on its own key so a stale profile cannot answer for it; the
palette is composed into the package, because naming a colour scheme does
not produce one and the dark bar had been coming from a technician's
hand; the desktop reset converges another desktop's appearance state and
keeps the room's own; and classroom-migrate stops, deactivates and masks
the old shell, including the D-Bus activation that brought mako back
while the panel was down — found only by killing the panel on a migrated
machine.

device.conf loses COMPOSITOR and comes off the hyprland channel, which
would otherwise have handed the room the experiment back.

The lab stops flattering the package: it restarts the machine, lets SDDM
actually autologin, and asks a fresh install and a machine upgraded from
the Hyprland package the same sixty questions. Both answer identically,
twice, and the panel still comes back from eight SIGKILLs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-10 23:06:56 -05:00

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#!/bin/bash
set -uo pipefail
# Turn a machine that was something else into this classroom.
#
# A room does not arrive new. It arrives as whatever it was before: the
# sway classroom, the Hyprland experiment, a machine a technician tried
# something on. The package can describe the desktop it wants perfectly
# and still lose to one leftover symlink, which is what happened: a real
# room upgraded to the Plasma appliance and came up with the old Waybar
# across the top, mako still catching notifications, and Plasma's own
# stock panel underneath.
#
# So the installation converges the machine instead of assuming it.
# Everything here is something a classroom package created, or state this
# package can identify as belonging to a classroom shell it replaces.
# Nothing removes a file Debian owns: the old bar and the old notification
# daemon stay installed and simply stop being started.
#
# Idempotent, and safe on a machine that has none of this. Run by hand at
# any time:
#
# sudo classroom-migrate
CLASSROOM_USER=classroom
DEVICE_CONFIG=/etc/ekklesia-classroom/device.conf
# The shells this appliance replaces. There is exactly one desktop stack
# now — SDDM, KWin, plasmashell — and every one of these is a component of
# a stack that is gone.
LEGACY_UNITS=(waybar.service mako.service swayidle.service swaybg.service)
LEGACY_PROCESSES=(waybar mako classroom-dock swaybg swayidle)
LEGACY_EXEC_PATTERN='waybar|mako|classroom-dock|classroom-notifications|sway|Hyprland|start-hyprland|classroom-session'
say() {
echo "[classroom-migrate] $1"
}
if [[ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]]; then
say "must be run as root"
exit 1
fi
home=$(getent passwd "$CLASSROOM_USER" | cut -d: -f6)
uid=$(id -u "$CLASSROOM_USER" 2>/dev/null || true)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- units
# Stop what is running now. The upgrade happens underneath a live session,
# so the old bar is on the screen while this runs.
if [[ -n "$uid" && -d "/run/user/$uid" ]]; then
for unit in "${LEGACY_UNITS[@]}"; do
runuser -u "$CLASSROOM_USER" -- env "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$uid" \
systemctl --user stop "$unit" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
done
fi
for process in "${LEGACY_PROCESSES[@]}"; do
if pkill -u "$CLASSROOM_USER" -x "$process" 2>/dev/null; then
say "stopped $process"
fi
done
# Remove the activation, wherever it was made. `systemctl --global enable`
# writes into /etc/systemd/user; a session that set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS gets
# /etc/xdg/systemd/user as well; and a unit enabled by hand as the
# classroom user lands in the home directory. The real room had it in the
# second of those, which is why guessing one location would not have been
# enough.
wants_roots=(/etc/systemd/user /etc/xdg/systemd/user /run/systemd/user)
[[ -n "$home" ]] && wants_roots+=("$home/.config/systemd/user")
for root in "${wants_roots[@]}"; do
[[ -d "$root" ]] || continue
for unit in "${LEGACY_UNITS[@]}"; do
while IFS= read -r link; do
rm -f "$link"
say "removed activation ${link#/}"
done < <(find "$root" -name "$unit" -path '*.wants/*' 2>/dev/null)
done
done
# The unit files themselves, where somebody wrote them by hand. Neither
# waybar nor mako ships a systemd unit in trixie, so a file by one of
# those names belongs to the shell this package replaces — but the rule is
# checked rather than assumed: anything a Debian package owns is left
# exactly where it is.
for root in /etc/systemd/user /etc/xdg/systemd/user "${home:+$home/.config/systemd/user}"; do
[[ -n "$root" && -d "$root" ]] || continue
for unit in "${LEGACY_UNITS[@]}"; do
[[ -f "$root/$unit" ]] || continue
if dpkg -S "$root/$unit" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
say "left $root/$unit alone: a Debian package owns it"
continue
fi
rm -f "$root/$unit"
say "removed the hand-written $root/$unit"
done
done
# And then say no once more, at the system level, so that a unit file
# reappearing from anywhere cannot start it. A mask is a symlink to
# /dev/null in /etc/systemd/user: visible, reversible, and it removes
# nothing.
systemctl --global mask "${LEGACY_UNITS[@]}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# And the other way the old notification daemon starts: D-Bus activation.
# The package shadows mako's service file so that activation fails, but a
# session bus that is already running read its service directories at
# startup and has not seen it. Measured during crash recovery on a
# migrated machine: the panel was killed, a notification was sent while
# nothing owned the name, and mako took it.
if [[ -n "$uid" && -S "/run/user/$uid/bus" ]]; then
runuser -u "$CLASSROOM_USER" -- env \
"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$uid" \
"DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$uid/bus" \
dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call \
/org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ReloadConfig \
>/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------------- autostart
# XDG autostart entries that start a component of the old shell. Matched on
# what they run, not on their filename, and only in the classroom's own
# directory.
if [[ -n "$home" && -d "$home/.config/autostart" ]]; then
for entry in "$home/.config/autostart"/*.desktop; do
[[ -e "$entry" ]] || continue
if grep -qE "^Exec=.*($LEGACY_EXEC_PATTERN)" "$entry" 2>/dev/null; then
rm -f "$entry"
say "removed autostart entry $(basename "$entry")"
fi
done
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------------ tty1 login
# The sway classroom started its session from the login shell of an
# autologin getty. SDDM owns the session now, and two things owning tty1
# is how a machine ends up with no usable screen at all.
if [[ -n "$home" && -f "$home/.bash_profile" ]]; then
if grep -qE "exec .*($LEGACY_EXEC_PATTERN)" "$home/.bash_profile" 2>/dev/null; then
rm -f "$home/.bash_profile"
say "removed the login shell that used to start the old session"
fi
fi
rm -f /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty \
/etc/systemd/system/[email protected] 2>/dev/null || true
# --------------------------------------------------------- device.conf
# The room's own settings file outlives every version of this package, so
# it is edited rather than replaced: the broker password is in it.
#
# COMPOSITOR chose between sway and Hyprland. There is nothing left for it
# to choose, and a stale value is worse than none — it is an instruction
# this package cannot carry out.
#
# CHANNEL decides which manifest the updater fetches. A machine left on the
# hyprland channel would be handed the Hyprland experiment again by the
# next release published there, undoing the upgrade it just took.
if [[ -f "$DEVICE_CONFIG" ]]; then
python3 - "$DEVICE_CONFIG" <<'PY'
import re
import sys
OBSOLETE_KEYS = ("COMPOSITOR", "HYPR_APPEARANCE")
# Channels that served a desktop this package replaces.
OBSOLETE_CHANNELS = {"hyprland"}
CHANNEL = "classroom-v2"
path = sys.argv[1]
with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
lines = handle.readlines()
out = []
changed = []
for line in lines:
key = line.split("=", 1)[0].strip() if "=" in line else ""
if key in OBSOLETE_KEYS:
changed.append(f"dropped {key}")
continue
if key == "CHANNEL":
value = line.split("=", 1)[1].strip()
if value.lower() in OBSOLETE_CHANNELS:
changed.append(f"moved off the {value} channel onto {CHANNEL}")
line = f"CHANNEL={CHANNEL}\n"
out.append(line)
if changed:
with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
handle.writelines(out)
for note in changed:
print(f"[classroom-migrate] device.conf: {note}")
PY
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------- the old session
# Plasma reads the classroom's settings out of a directory that has to be
# in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, and the environment.d file that used to put it there
# never reached a session started by SDDM. The session script that does is
# installed by the package; this only checks it arrived, because a room
# without it is a room with no lockdown and no panel of ours.
if [[ ! -r /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/zz-ekklesia-classroom.sh ]]; then
say "WARNING: the session environment script is missing;"
say " the desktop will come up as stock Plasma"
fi
say "done"