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ProbeLabsviewing a historical runA proof layer — requirements, tests and verified fixes — for two of Omarchy's subsystems: the application menu (launcher scripts, QML model, JSONC config, search and selection) and the lock screen (lock scripts, QML, PAM authentication). Scope is deliberately limited to those components of omacom/omarchy; the rest of the distribution is not covered.
Failed/empty readlink result stored as backgroundPath, wiping a good lock-screen wallpaper
Low-severity issue, currently open.
Description
The issue as recorded.
readlinkProc's handler (shell/plugins/lock/Service.qml:499-507) takes lines[0] of the collector output with no non-empty guard. The embedded bash prints only after a successful readlink, so a missing currentBackgroundLink or a readlink error yields next = ''. The next !== backgroundPath branch then clears videoPosterPath, stores backgroundPath = '', and bumps backgroundVersion. A transient wallpaper race (theme switch) then blanks the lock background until a later refresh succeeds.
Affected requirements
The requirement(s) this issue violates — click through to the spec.
Severity, explained
Why this is rated the way it is — and the scoring signals behind the rating (each ⓘ explains the term).
- why this rating
- Risk-rated
- risk area
- Correctness
How it's proven
The reproducer — an actual test that drives the real code and shows the issue happening. Run it yourself, or peek the test and the source it covers.
./pocs/crs-260930-ttvk-qml-static.sh
Reproduction steps
Technical steps for your engineers to confirm the issue by hand.
./pocs/crs-260930-ttvk-qml-static.sh
What protects you, and the fix
What limits your exposure today, and the planned remediation.
What protects you now
next refreshBackground with a good link restores it
The fix
Keep the previous backgroundPath (and signature) when the readlink output is empty, and retry via a short timer instead of committing the empty result
Blast radius
If you touch this issue, what else may need re-checking — the requirements it affects and the code and tests that hang off them. Historical view: authored trace links only — automatically derived links aren't reconstructible for past runs.
No authoredcode links reach these requirements in this historical reconstruction. Automatically derived code links aren't reconstructible for past runs, so implementing code may have existed without an authored trace.
Evidence trail
The raw evidence manifests behind this finding — superseded by the resolved reproducer above, kept here for traceability.
Evidence trail
The raw evidence manifests behind this finding — superseded by the resolved reproducer above, kept here for traceability.
- proof/evidence/ki-lock-empty-readlink-wipes-wallpaper.yaml
Change history
Every recorded revision of this finding's source file — when it was added, edited, or re-classified, with the diff for each change.
Discussions
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