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I am unable to install gnome-extensions since last reboot.

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I tried resetting gnome using gnome-tweaks and reinstalling chrome-gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extension and, 'GNOME Shell integration' plugin for Firefox. I am using Ubuntu version 18.04.2 and kernel 5.2.5-050205-generic.

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    Try booting to the standard 18.04.2 kernel and see if things improve. Report back.
    – heynnema
    Aug 11, 2019 at 16:13

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I don’t know what did you do, but I backup up all my extensions (copied the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions folder), reinstall OS (Fedora 30), removed ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions folder, created a symlink to the backed up folder (link being in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Then I’ve got the error.

I believe that the Firefox extension checks if ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extesions is a folder, but a symlink is not a folder (not even when it links to a folder), therefore a variable in the Firefox extension is left undefined.

Solution

The folder ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions must be a folder, not a symlink. In my case, I symlink ~/.local/share/gnome-shell and it works again. If you don’t want/need to use a symlink, use regular folders and the issue disappears.

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    In my case, it was some issue with OpenSSL. It started working after I updated OpenSSL to the latest version. ( I was preventing OpenSSL from updating due to unrelated reasons).
    – Ativ Joshi
    Sep 18, 2019 at 10:44

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