Bug#1135656: gnome-system-monitor extension cannot be enabled

Jan Evert van Grootheest j.e.van.grootheest at caiway.nl
Mon May 4 08:50:28 BST 2026


Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 50.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

Installing updates. Previous update was ~3 weeks ago.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

The gnome-system-monitor extension is not enabled and cannot be enabled.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.19.14+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4+b1
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.9.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.42-15
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-3+b1
ii  libgcc-s1                                    16-20260322-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.88.0-1
ii  libglibmm-2.68-1t64                          2.86.0-7
ii  libgraphene-1.0-0                            1.10.8-5+b2
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.22.3+ds-1
ii  libgtkmm-4.0-0                               4.22.0-1
ii  libgtop-2.0-11                               2.41.3-2+b2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.57.1-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.57.1-2
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.62.1+dfsg-1
ii  libsigc++-3.0-0                              3.6.0-2+b2
ii  libstdc++6                                   16-20260322-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  260.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.60.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor suggests:
ii  pkexec  127-3

-- no debconf information

The gnome shell extension manager reports that the schema cannot be
loaded.
Accessing the settings fails as well, and provides these details:

The settings of extension system-monitor-next at paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com had an error:
```
Error: Schema org.gnome.shell.extensions.system-monitor-next-applet could not be found for extension system-monitor-next at paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com. Please check your installation

Stack trace:
  getSettings at resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensions/sharedInternals.js:109:19
  fillPreferencesWindow at file:///home/janevert/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/system-monitor-next at paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com/prefs.js:672:29
  _loadPrefs at resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:43:24
  async*ExtensionPrefsDialog at resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:28:14
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync at resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:138:33
  async*_handleMethodCall at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:407:31
  _wrapJSObject/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:448:34
  _init/GLib.MainLoop.prototype.runAsync/</<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GLib.js:264:34
  
```



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