From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: 35591@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: jonathan@terracrypt.net
Subject: bug#35591: Segfault on flatpak remote-add
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 22:23:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv0m1ar8.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnid9ok5.fsf@sturm.com.au>
Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 05 May 2019, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to use Flatpak on my Guix system, and I'm experiencing
>> segfaults when attempting to add a remote repo. Provided below are the
>> output of the command I'm attempting to run, as well as some info
>> about my system.
>
> I learnt on #guix IRC that flatpak works when run with the --user flag:
>
> $ flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
> $ flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Builder
> $ flatpak run org.gnome.Builder
>
> The segfaulting behaviour is still a bug in my opinion, because it's
> extremely user un-friendly, and the requirement for --user is not
> obvious.
Yes, segfaults are always bugs, unless you forced the program to
load garbage.
I traced the execution of flatpak and saw that it segfaults right after
failing to created /var/lib/flatpak. Sure enough, after creating it
manually the program no longer segfaults.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-11 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-05 20:05 bug#35591: Segfault on flatpak remote-add Jonathan Frederickson
2019-05-05 22:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-05-05 22:47 ` Jonathan Frederickson
2019-10-31 10:50 ` Ben Sturmfels
2020-05-11 20:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-05-11 21:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-14 5:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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