I will try to provide as much information as I can, and if more is needed please ask. Flatpaks struggle to open in a lot of cases for me, and part of it I think has to do with permissions, but I can only guess based on what I have tried so far. What usually happens is that I click launch, the application will visibly be opening on my task bar for a few moments, then disappear as if it closed for some odd reason.
I have done the following:
flatpak update
flatpak repair
Changing around permissions in flatseal
Opening the application in the terminal first without sudo, and then with sudo
None of these worked. The closest I have gotten it to work is that opening up an application with sudo in the terminal - in this case the Hytale launcher - will indeed open up the window, but as an example it can’t launch the browser to sign in, and it closes itself soon after.
I sincerely hope I can get some help here. Don’t know if I’m the one that borked my own system here but I would very much like to use flatpaks lol. I’m not tech illiterate but I would also appreciate if certain fixes could be explained in a way that’s accessible to newbies. Thank you.
I would completely remove Flatpak and reinstall it.
flatpak uninstall --all and then check for any remaining files: flatpak repair (to make sure everything is gone). Then reinstall. Yes, it’s annoying, but it’s the better solution (in my opinion).
With KDE 40, the kernel modules or X11 drivers might be older, which could lead to conflicts with newer Flatpaks. Perhaps it would be better to switch to a newer Fedora version? But that’s just a guess… Maybe check which Flatpak version you’re using with flatpak --version. Versions below 1.10.x might cause problems if you’re using apps that require maximum graphics acceleration. But as I said, these are just guesses.
Does: flatpak run --verbose --command=sh flatpak-application-id
and then running the flatpak show any obvious errors.
e.g. flatpak run --verbose --command=sh com.github.tchx84.Flatseal com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
Tried this with two applications I know have issues, both end with that bwrap line. I know nothing about that or how I would fix that, any info there would be appreciated.
Just above the lines about bwrap I see a failed attempt to use pulseaudio.
Pulseaudio has not been used on fedora for several release versions so that may be related to the failure.
Do you happen to have the pipewire-pulseaudio package installed or not? That package is supposed to allow most apps depending upon pulseaudio to work with pipewire.
Seems to me like they are mostly games. Flatseal, for example, will launch just fine. Games like Vintage Story, Hytale, PokeMMO, etc. have trouble. However, Obsidian also has this issue.
Can you post flatpak list
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You could try resetting permissions completely for one of the apps in question
e.g. flatpak override --reset io.mrarm.mcpelauncher
or latpak override --reset --user io.mrarm.mcpelauncher
if you’re running a user installation.
You can also do this in flatseal by hitting the reset button after selecting an app, last I looked it was at the top right.
You could also try cleaning up unused runtimes. flatpak remove --unused
I sincerely apologize for wasting time, it was indeed a permissions problem and I should have checked earlier. I just about enabled everything in flatseal and the flatpaks work flawlessly again. Thank you all for trying.
