Cannot enable extension after update

[Elior Cohen]

Describe the bug
I've installed the PaperWM extension through extensions.gnome.org and everything went well.
Then I got prompted to log out and in to get an update. After I clicked the prompt and re-logged, I cannot enable the extension.

I tried to remove the extension and reinstall it, same problem.

Also, through the command line, I tried enabling.

~ gnome-extensions list
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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~ gnome-extensions enable [e-mail]

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~ gnome-extensions info [e-mail]
[e-mail]
  Name: PaperWM
  Description: Tiling window manager with a twist
  Path: /home/eliorc/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]
  URL: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
  Version: 46.8.1 (107)
  Enabled: No
  State: INITIALIZED

To Reproduce
Just click the pop-up on gnome-extension UI and see if it workf for you

Expected behavior
To be able to enable the extension

Screenshots
Screenshot of the Gnome Extensions UI - cannot enable

System information:
Distribution: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
GNOME Shell: 46.0
Display server: Wayland
PaperWM version: 46.8.1
Enabled extensions:

• [e-mail]
• [e-mail]
• [e-mail]

[Jay Ta'ala]

hmmm. Can you try a manual uninstall, login and then try reinstall? E.g.

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]

Logout, login, and then reinstall via extensions.gnome.org.

[Jay Ta'ala]

Just did a clean install of PaperWM via gnome.extensions.org. Can't reproduce.

Anyone else seeing this?

[Jay Ta'ala]

Have you recently (or before) installed the source code version? Sometimes it can get confused and usually requires deleting the source code version installed symlink.

Anyways, let me know how you go.

[Elior Cohen]

Now I haven't it's a fresh Ubuntu install, I'm going to try what you mentioned with the manual reinstallation

[Elior Cohen]

@jtaala didn't work

[Jay Ta'ala]

hmmm. Can you paste the output of.

Okay, let's manually remove again:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]

after that, can you paste the out of:

ls ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

Just need to make sure it's clear.

On a sidenote, it looks like you can't enable any extension from your extension UI screenshot you put up?

[Elior Cohen]

On a sidenote, it looks like you can't enable any extension from your extension UI screenshot you put up?

True that. Seems like something locked the ability to enable extensions. In /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/extensions-mandatory the value of enabling extensiosn was locked. After I removed it everything works okay. I guess this is not a result of anything related to PaperWM.

Thanks for the replies anyhow :)

[Jay Ta'ala]

np. Glad you got it sorted.