network-manager-gnome autostarts its own systray icon from /etc/xdg/autostart,
which duplicates the network genmon (plugin-13) already in the panel. Override
it with a Hidden=true user-level .desktop, the same way blueman-applet and
nm-tray are already handled, and copy it into place from the panel installer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Neither the Plymouth theme nor the login/lock theming was ever installed by a
restore, so a rebuilt box came up with stock distro branding.
bin/boot-branding.sh installs all three, and the desktop stage of
restore-linux.sh calls it. Each block self-skips when its greeter is absent or
already current, so it is cheap to re-run and works whether the box boots
lightdm or SDDM:
- Plymouth: a real copy under /usr/share/plymouth/themes, not a symlink into
the user home. The stock initramfs hook copies the theme path verbatim, so a
symlink into an unmounted home dangles at early boot and Plymouth drops to
text mode -- which is what assets/boot/initramfs-hook-my-custom-logo existed
to work around. With a real copy that hook is unnecessary.
- SDDM: the NexusOS-QML theme, selected via /etc/sddm.conf.d.
- slick-greeter: cannot lay out a custom login screen, so the logo and wordmark
are baked into assets/themes/greeter/greeter-background.svg and its own
centered login box lands underneath.
Main.qml now loads background.png instead of background.svg. QtSvg implements
SVG Tiny 1.2, which has no <pattern>, so the brushed-metal and machine-line
textures silently dropped out at runtime. librsvg renders them, so the SVG is
rasterized at 1920x1200 and committed alongside it; the regeneration command is
in the comment above the source: line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ported from downstream development. Four independent defects.
1. The memory dump was unrestorable. iterdump() serializes sqlite_vec virtual
tables as a raw INSERT INTO sqlite_master(...) followed by inserts into a
table the replaying connection cannot see, so replaying memory.db.sql died
on "no such table: vec_messages" and left ZERO tables behind. dump_db() now
loads the vec0 extension and filters the derived vec tables out of the
iterdump stream, matched on each statement's target table rather than as a
substring - a chat message whose text mentions vec_messages is an
INSERT INTO "messages" and has to survive.
compare() reported an unreadable dump as "diverged", which read like a real
verdict and made both guards refuse backup AND restore, locking the machine
out of syncing in either direction. Unreadable is now its own verdict.
_extra() compared updated_at against a "" default, but the column is REAL,
so the comparison raises TypeError on the first conversation the other side
lacks - exactly the case it counts. It tests membership first now. The
direction test declared updated_at TEXT, which is why this survived: the
test compared str to str while the field compared str to float.
2. The memory curator invented facts. It attributed the ASSISTANT's words to
the user, wrote absence claims read off the existing-memory block, and added
judgements ("favorite") the user never used. The prompt now scopes the USER
line as the only source, and two deterministic guards drop absence claims
and facts whose distinctive tokens appear nowhere in the user's message -
prompt wording alone did not hold on a 7B curator.
3. _best_vulkan_device scored Mesa's llvmpipe above an integrated GPU, pinning
Ollama to a software rasterizer advertising 31 GiB of "VRAM" - CPU inference
with Vulkan overhead on top. Software rasterizers are dropped.
4. Models.jsx compared catalog names to installed names literally, but Ollama
resolves a bare name to ":latest", so an untagged entry (nomic-embed-text)
read as missing forever and the Required gate never opened. Chatbot.jsx
fetched the model list once on mount although App keeps the page mounted
behind display:none, so a newly pulled model never appeared in the picker
until a full browser reload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
core.fileMode=false (repo-local or a machine-wide /etc/gitconfig) can
silently drop the +x bit on every tracked script during checkout, which
then surfaces later as a confusing "Permission denied" on whatever
script happens to run next rather than as an obvious failure up front.
ensure_exec_bits() re-applies +x from `git ls-files -s` (mode 100755)
right after every pull, so a restore is self-healing regardless of cause.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
requirements-amd.txt/requirements-nvidia.txt were pulling a multi-GB
torch wheel by default even though nothing in synapse/ imports torch,
transformers, accelerate, bitsandbytes, or PySide6 - dead weight that
made the pip batch fragile (one failed download could take unrelated
base deps down with it on a slow connection). Split the unused ML/GUI
stack out of requirements-base.txt into a new opt-in requirements-ml.txt,
and dropped the torch lines from the AMD/NVIDIA overlays and generator.
Also: recreate the venv if it exists but pip is missing, instead of
silently reusing a half-built one (ensurepip can fail during venv
creation and leave an interpreter with no pip).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Newer distros drop the python3-venv transitional package once it no longer
resolves to a real pythonX.Y-venv candidate, which crashed sync.py's venv
creation with a raw traceback. Prep now resolves the exact versioned
package via apt-cache, and skips xfce4-genmon-plugin/plank/blueman on
boxes with no xfconf-query so a non-XFCE box doesn't get noisy "unable to
locate package" failures for a panel it'll never run. venv_python() also
fails with an actionable message instead of an uncaught CalledProcessError.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ported from the private repo via bin/publish.sh, plus a manual catch-up
on files that had drifted out of sync before today:
- launch_nexus.ps1: health-check based restart decisions instead of a
bare port-listen check (a wedged leftover process squatting a port
used to look "already running" and block the real service from
starting), a script-path quoting fix for Start-Process, hidden
console via a wscript.exe wrapper (bin/launch_nexus_hidden.vbs), and
a taskbar/window icon for the native app window.
- Sidebar: slim icon+text nav rows instead of bulky bordered buttons,
tighter spacing throughout.
- Settings: full-width layout, a Vite dev-server Start/Stop toggle
(synapse/frontend_manager.py + /frontend/* endpoints), and the
Linux-only Icon Branding section now gated on the new /status
`platform` field instead of always rendering.
- Chatbot: a Think toggle next to the model picker, so extended
thinking can be flipped without leaving the chat page.
- management/ncp.py: faster start/stop polling (0.25s steps instead of
1s), Vite no longer blocks `ncp start` on Linux and is skipped
outright on Windows.
Note: the private repo also has a Mail (IMAP/SMTP) feature; it's
intentionally not included here, so the Mail-only pieces of main.py,
App.jsx, and requirements-windows.txt were left out of this port.
Models page redesign: tabs (Required/Recommended/Installed) with a
multi-column card grid, required models (memory curator + embeddings)
surfaced first and gating the rest until both are installed. Adds a
qwen2.5:14b tier to the hardware-fit catalog for high-VRAM machines.
Installer and restore messaging updated to match. Also declares pytest
in requirements-base.txt so bin/check.sh's test suite is reproducible
on a fresh venv.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Debian apt ships EOL Node 18 which crashes Vite 8. Prep stage installs Node 20
from NodeSource when node is missing or <20; package.json declares engines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The backend logged 200 OK for polls the client had already timed out on.
is_running() waited 2s for an Ollama that ships OFF (now 0.5s), is_available()
spawned 'ollama --version' every call and that command blocks ~5s when Ollama is
wedged (now cached), and both ran synchronously inside an async def, stalling the
event loop on every poll while the UI polls continuously (now to_thread).
Measured with Ollama's port blackholed: /status 5.89s -> 0.64s, concurrent GET /
stalled -> 0.06s. Poll timeout in nexus_window.py raised 2s -> 5s for margin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two black terminals had two causes: uvicorn --reload (a dev flag whose
reloader spawns the server as a child, and Windows gives a console window to a
child of a console-less parent), and DETACHED_PROCESS in launch(), which is
exactly the console-less condition that triggers it. Drops --reload here
(launch_nexus.sh keeps it for the Linux dev loop) and uses CREATE_NO_WINDOW.
The window now opens immediately on an inline 'Loading Nexus core services' page
and navigates to the app once /status answers, instead of waiting 40s offscreen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PowerShell resolves ExternalScript (.ps1) ahead of Application (.cmd), and both
lived in the directory the installer puts on PATH -- so in PowerShell `ncp` ran
the .ps1 and was execution-policy-bound again, the exact thing the .cmd exists
to avoid. Its other justification (giving ncp to pwsh on Linux) stopped being
true once /usr/local/bin/ncp existed: pwsh runs a PATH symlink to a shell script
as an Application. A test now prevents the file coming back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports the ncp PATH work from upstream. Registering ncp as a shell-profile
function failed three ways on Windows: the default Restricted execution policy
blocks the profile itself, profiles don't exist outside PowerShell (cmd, Win+R,
Task Scheduler), and the self-elevating installer writes the admin's profile.
Windows now ships management/ncp.cmd and the installer appends management\ to
the Machine PATH via [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable -- never setx, which
truncates PATH at 1024 chars. A .cmd is exempt from the execution policy.
Linux symlinks /usr/local/bin/ncp -> management/nexus-cli.sh, falling back to
the old .bashrc function when sudo is unavailable.
Also renames requirements-wsl.txt to requirements-windows.txt and purges stale
WSL references, including vite.config.js's dev-server comment and
controlpanel.py's "Check WSLg." error string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
management/ncp.py replaces the bash CLI's logic; nexus-cli.sh and the new
ncp.ps1 are thin wrappers, so Linux keeps its entry point and Windows gains one.
psutil handles process and port work on both platforms.
install-windows.ps1 registers ncp in the PowerShell profile. The panel VPN
switch now resolves its WireGuard connection through NetworkManager instead of
a hardcoded name, and the .ps1 ASCII guard globs rather than naming files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
gen-nvidia-reqs.py wrote requirements-nvidia.txt with os.linesep, so running
it on Windows produced CRLF. Pinned to newline="\n".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bin/install.sh still rsynced --delete from a backup path retired in July, so
the documented Linux install both failed and could erase a working tree. Every
step it claimed to do already lives in bin/sync.py, shared with Windows.
Root ./install.sh is now a thin wrapper over `sync.py restore`, so deployment
stays one bash command. It also registers ncp/promethean in ~/.bashrc, which
was the only thing the old script uniquely did.
Split restore-linux.sh into runtime (Ollama binary, shell aliases) and desktop
(XFCE panel, theme, os-release). Only desktop writes outside the repo, it now
auto-skips off XFCE, and `--no-desktop` skips it explicitly. Two tests keep the
stage names in sync and the $HOME writes confined to the desktop stage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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