Can't run trivalent browser -- related to bubblewrap upgrade to 0.12?

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For the last two days, I’ve been unable to run the trivalent browser. When I try from the command line, I get:

bwrap: Can’t mkdir parents for /home/dude/.cache: Permission denied

I’m running F43 GNOME workstation. My bubblewrap version is 0.12.0-1, upgraded yesterday from 0.11.0-4.

Any suggestions?

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Since trivalent is not by default available on any Fedora source, this can be only processed if you add from where you have trivalent and how you installed it. The latter might need even a step-by-step explanation of how you installed it because this is something that might have been the result of an error or practice made during installation (even if it worked at first → e.g., if best practices are not implemented something can break at later times).

So if there is some data about what and how it was installed, you might get some people to review that data. If the error is in the installed package / container / files, I guess you will need to go upstream.

Btw, as far as I know, there is the expectation that chromium-based browsers will be compatible with flatpak in a reasonable amount of time, and trivalent might be packaged by its maintainers for that. Though I have no idea when this will be nor if that plan is still up to date.

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Thank you for the information. Here’s how I installed trivalent:

  1. wget the repo from https://repo.secureblue.dev/secureblue.repo
  2. dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=/tmp/secureblue.repo
  3. sudo dnf install trivalent

I’d been happily using trivalent for several months until the bwrap error showed up a couple of days ago.

https://repo.secureblue.dev/secureblue.repo

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Have you installed the new update? It has a fix related to bubblewrap.

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Thank you, Sushant. I’ve just opened the software app and updated – problem solved!

I updated yesterday too, but the Trivalent update was apparently not available from Fedora at the time. Next time I have a problem like this, I will check for updates before replying to a forum post.

Since I have the Trivalent repo installed, I presume that the update showed up in the software app just as soon as it was available. Have I got that right? If not, is there a way I could have got the update sooner?

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This update was released 12 hours ago, and then it must have passed the pipeline from source to the “usable” build (I do not know the testing and build pipelines of secureblue though, nor their infra, and thus I don’t know how long these processes take on average).

The repo you use is the upstream repo of secureblue, which is the same maintainer as trivalent.

So I expect no, there is little you could have done better in this particular case to get the update sooner. Bugs occur, and then it takes its time to fix them :classic_smiley:

It doubt it was available anytime sooner for anyone else, given that secureblue is Fedora-based and thus is likely to have corresponding emphasis :wink: (not sure if they have even own repos for anything else than Fedora (?))