Disk management woes

GNOME does not have support to move partitions around. GParted requires the presence of ntfs3g on $PATH to enable NTFS support. When moving Windows installations across disks the reason why stuff doesn’t boot is that the Windows EFI for the old disk is sitting around in your /boot partition so the systemd-boot option I pick tries to boot into a non-existent installation. The fix for this is to go and delete the Microsoft folder from /boot/EFI and replace it with the one in your new disk and it’ll be fixed. ...

June 30, 2025 · 1 min

GNOME keyring daemon failing with 'No such secret item at path'

After a GNOME related NixOS rebuild sometimes the secret store starts erroring out with this message: No such secret item at path: /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/145 This is resolved by restarting the gnome-keyring-daemon using the command gnome-keyring-daemon -r -d.

June 30, 2025 · 1 min