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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.
dmenu request lifecycle drops waiters on re-summon, on a busy resultProc, and for doneFile-only requests
Low-severity issue, currently open.
Description
The issue as recorded.
A second open without close() replaces selectionFile/doneFile/requestActive with no write to the previous done file - the first caller waits forever (SX26/C06/C07; openExistingMenu/openDmenu bodies). This is omacom/omarchy#9057. The behavioural reproducer test/reports/report-cmulr95nw0kqr1gw46i7f50xj.sh drives two real omarchy-menu-select callers through the real Menu.qml open/openDmenu/cancel bodies. The superseded caller never gets its done file and polls forever. Upstream e332dc97 has no cancel-prior guard; PR 9056 adds one.
finishRequest wipes requestActive and both paths BEFORE resultProc.running = true. Quickshell therefore ignores a command change while the previous write runs, and the new selection disappears (SX26/C14; the empty-selectionFile redirect variant is SX26/C15 and HFY2/C36).
Affected requirements
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Severity, explained
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- risk area
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- CVE surface
- None
How it's proven
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known_issue_reproducersh test/reports/report-cmulr95nw0kqr1gw46i7f50xj.sh
Reproduction steps
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sh test/reports/report-cmulr95nw0kqr1gw46i7f50xj.sh
What protects you, and the fix
What limits your exposure today, and the planned remediation.
What protects you now
A dropped waiter loses at most one prompt; the next summon re-handshakes cleanly and no stale selection is ever dispatched
The fix
finish (or sentinel) the outstanding request before replacing its files; queue the write when resultProc is running; treat a doneFile-only request as cancel-only
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.
Touch this finding and you re-check 8 requirements · 3 code files · 2 tests.
- Menu.qml
- omarchy-menu-input
- omarchy-menu-select
- menu-dmenu-test.sh
- report-cmulr95nw0kqr1gw46i7f50xj.sh
Per-requirement evidence
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Per-requirement evidence
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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.
- pocs/menu-qml-static.sh
- proof/evidence/ki-menu-request-lifecycle.yaml
- test/reports/report-cmulr95nw0kqr1gw46i7f50xj.sh
Change history
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