It turns out that the Blender source tarball has been missing the datafiles/assets directory, which is a git submodule. It will be included in future releases. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/128359
Since this bug was reported, trixie has become stable and the bug is still reproducible. What is the Debian Multimedia Maintainers' policy on backporting a fix to this bug to the stable version of the package? What could an end user do to fix or mitigate this bug (short of recompiling blender from upstream)? I assume the brush assets can be dynamically loaded to blender. Please help me obtain and load the missing brushes to blender while the bug is being fixed!
This bug also happens with me, when I switch to sculpt mode and vertex paint mode, there are no brushes so these modes don't work at all
This is happening on my install of Trixie too. How did this even make its way into stable? Isn't Debian all about having as little bugs as possible if that means having older packages? In that case how could a bug that prevents the user from using such a big part of the software live on Trixie? We need to patch this A.S.A.P.! I'm switching to the flatpak version for now. Thank you.
I figured out a workaround for now. blender has a seperate project for their assets. you can download the brushes from there: sudo curl --create-dirs --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/working/brushes/essentials_brushes.blend sudo chmod o+rx /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/ /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes
This was wrong. You should download from the publish directory, I'm sorry. sudo curl --create-dirs --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-curve_sculpt.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-curve_sculpt.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_draw.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_draw.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_sculpt.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_sculpt.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_vertex.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_vertex.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_weight.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-gp_weight.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_sculpt.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_sculpt.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_texture.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_texture.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_vertex.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_vertex.blend sudo curl --output /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_weight.blend https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/publish/brushes/essentials_brushes-mesh_weight.blend sudo chmod o+rx /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets /usr/share/blender/datafiles/assets/brushes/ https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-assets/media/branch/blender-v4.3-release/working/brushes/essentials_brushes.blend