hyprpm update throws error | hyprpm cannot update

[rousty88]

Error thrown when trying to run hyprpm update

(I love Hyprland/ very happy with it. I'm not dependant on any hyprpm plugins at the moment, so not urgent/ can prioritise more urgent issues).

My systeminfo:

Hyprland 0.48.1 built from branch openSUSE at commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000  (Built for x86_64-suse-linux).
Date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970
Tag: 0.48.1, commits: -1
built against:
 aquamarine 0.8.0
 hyprlang 0.6.0
 hyprutils 0.5.2
 hyprcursor 0.1.10
 hyprgraphics 0.1.1


no flags were set


System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: linux
Release: 6.14.0-1-default
Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 25 06:23:18 UTC 2025 (ab99d4c)


GPU information: 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:a7a0] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


os-release: NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20250403"
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse"
VERSION_ID="20250403"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
# CPE 2.3 format, boo#1217921
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20250403:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
#CPE 2.2 format
#CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20250403"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.opensuse.org"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Tumbleweed"


plugins:

When I run hyprpm update I get the following output(I'll also attach screenshot):

➜  ~ hyprpm update
Error writing to log: Bad file descriptor

✔ installed headers                                                                                       
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  1 / 1  Done!                                         

→ checking for updates for hyprland-plugins                                                               
→ Cloning https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-plugins                                                      
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━╍━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  1 / 4  Updating hyprland-plugins✖ could not clone repo: shell returned: 

I seen it mentioned on a Matrix discussion about clearing a cache folder in ~/.local/share/hyprpm/. I do not have a cache folder in that directory(not sure if that matters). In that directory I have one folder called hyprpland-plugins and I have a TOML file called state.toml.

Output from hyprpm list(I was just trying to enable one by one to try see working before I installed any other plugins from other people):

➜  ~ hyprpm list
→ Repository hyprland-plugins:
  │ Plugin borders-plus-plus
  └─ enabled: false

  │ Plugin csgo-vulkan-fix
  └─ enabled: false

  │ Plugin hyprbars
  └─ enabled: false

  │ Plugin hyprexpo
  └─ enabled: false

  │ Plugin hyprtrails
  └─ enabled: true

  │ Plugin hyprwinwrap
  └─ enabled: false

  │ Plugin xtra-dispatchers
  └─ enabled: false

[vaxerski]

Could not clone repo: shell returned: is suspicious, shell didn't return anything? We essentially run /bin/sh -c "cd ... && git clone ...". Does your /bin/sh work?

[rousty88]

The above screenshot is all it ever returns. I use Fish shell by default(I should have mentioned above), would that matter? The above screenshot was ran in Fish. When it failed, I did try switch back to bash and ran hyprpm update and it returns the same thing.

I created a duff bash file with the following(and it spits out the text OK):

#!/bin/sh

echo "Hello world"

So my /bin/sh seems to work OK.

I also should have mentioned, I've been getting this for months now, so not specific to version 0.48.1.

[vaxerski]

no clue why this happens, then.