Originally Posted by pichlo

I ran the magic incantation indicated here and got this:

Code:

-- Logs begin at Thu 2018-11-08 06:13:57 GMT, end at Thu 2018-11-08 08:10:39 GMT. --
Nov 08 08:09:05 Sailfish estart[2906]: [W] unknown:0 - Mandatory field "path" missing in entry on file "sailfishos-voicecall-combined-patch.json"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "harbour-pure-maps-patch ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "patch-remove-space-before-punctuations ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "eugenio-voicecallui-keypad-by-default ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfishos-patchmanager-unapplyall ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfishos-patch-hide-tutorial-icon ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfishos-patch-freerotate-phone ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfishos-patch-gallery-camera-shortcut ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfish-weather-widget-patch ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "return-old-pulley-menu ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "disable-volume-warning ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "remorse-timeouts-control ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "ultimate-statusbar ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "voicecall-combined ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:08 Sailfish patchmanager[3320]: "sailfishos-patch-messages-layout ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:26 Sailfish estart[3374]: [W] unknown:0 - Mandatory field "path" missing in entry on file "sailfishos-voicecall-combined-patch.json"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "harbour-pure-maps-patch ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "patch-remove-space-before-punctuations ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "eugenio-voicecallui-keypad-by-default ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfishos-patchmanager-unapplyall ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfishos-patch-hide-tutorial-icon ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfishos-patch-freerotate-phone ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfishos-patch-gallery-camera-shortcut ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfish-weather-widget-patch ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "return-old-pulley-menu ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "disable-volume-warning ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "remorse-timeouts-control ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "ultimate-statusbar ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "voicecall-combined ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"
Nov 08 08:09:29 Sailfish patchmanager[3433]: "sailfishos-patch-messages-layout ausmt-sailfishos-1\n"

I must say I am a bit confused. It looks like some kind of weird interaction between Patchmanager and Warehouse. Or maybe it is just the affected package alone. But it is 100% reproducible. Every time I update any package (the most recently it happened just now on updating the Mapbox GL QML plugin), this happens:

• StartAsRoot for File-browser (package name 'filebrowserroot') disappears
• Patch: StartAsRoot for File-browser (package name 'sailfishos-filebrowserroot-patch') appears in Patchmanager, disabled, unable to turn on
• I can remove the patch in Patchmanager and it goes away, but reappears the next time I start Patchmanager
• You may notice sailfishos-filebrowserroot-patch is not listed in the Patchmanager's log above
• Going back to Warehouse, I see the patch installed instead of the standalone application
• Unistalling the patch and installing the application in Warehouse fixes the problem - until the next time