From 464099c1cdc1fb84d3dc71921e8161c66dea8710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Kisters <1524059+lhns@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 04:06:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clipboard sync: a process gone since pgrep no longer aborts
 the switch

ps fails for it, and with pipefail the assignment ended the activation;
it is skipped now.
---
 modules/clipboard-sync.nix | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/clipboard-sync.nix b/modules/clipboard-sync.nix
index 7d36887..7df42ba 100644
--- a/modules/clipboard-sync.nix
+++ b/modules/clipboard-sync.nix
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ in {
       desktop=() other=()
       for pid in $(${pkgs.procps}/bin/pgrep -x clipboard-sync || true); do
         # clipboard-sync forks workers; only look at top-level instances.
-        ppid="$(${pkgs.procps}/bin/ps -o ppid= -p "$pid" | tr -d ' ')"
+        # Gone since pgrep (e.g. an exited worker): skip it.
+        ppid="$(${pkgs.procps}/bin/ps -o ppid= -p "$pid" | tr -d ' ')" || continue
         [ "$(cat "/proc/$ppid/comm" 2>/dev/null)" = clipboard-sync ] && continue
         if [ "$(readlink "/proc/$pid/exe" 2>/dev/null)" != "$want" ]; then
           run kill "$pid" || true                                  # stale build