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Punchcutter
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 Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 4:32 am Post subject: Can't run Brave browser as a flatpak |
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Hi.... I've been wanting to use Brave, and rather than deal with overlays, I thought I would try to run it out of a flatpak, which would also be a good intro to using flatpaks for me.
I've got flatpak installed and Brave installed within, but getting a dbus-related error when I try to execute: | Code: | $ flatpak run com.brave.Browser
Failed to initialize (is the Flatpak D-Bus portal working?): Failed to get portal proxy: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory) |
Can anyone give me a hint what's wrong here?
| Code: | $ ps -ef | grep dbus
message+ 1305 1 0 13:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
me 2314 1 0 14:55 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 178ffbac00da6fbd71fcf7c565e7c925 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
me 2315 1 0 14:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
me 2377 2371 0 14:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 11 --address=unix:path=/run/user/1000/at-spi/bus_0
me 3747 5407 0 21:22 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dbus |
I'm running xorg with just iceWM, starting with startx - very simple environment. My whole system is USE="-systemd". Thanks. |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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What is the output of
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USE="X elogind policykit" emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus flatpak
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks...
| Code: | $ USE="X elogind policykit" emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus flatpak
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 2.88 s (backtrack: 0/20).
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-1.15.8::gentoo USE="X elogind -debug -doc (-selinux) -static-libs -systemd -test -valgrind" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/flatpak-1.14.10::gentoo USE="X policykit seccomp -doc -introspection -systemd" 0 KiB
Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB |
Elogind is installed and the daemon is running. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| A new bit of information that might shed some light: I just installed the flatpak of the Zoom videoconf client, and it at least starts up without any complaint. |
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:29 am Post subject: |
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I found this upstream issue, maybe it gives you some hint to understand the problem
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| fedeliallalinea wrote: | | I found this upstream issue, maybe it gives you some hint to understand the problem |
Thanks but I don't think that applies to me, as I'm not on a musl profile. My profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop |
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| Punchcutter wrote: | | Thanks but I don't think that applies to me, as I'm not on a musl profile. My profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop |
True but the answer to the problem says it should not be related to musl. Have you tried tearing the application with the flatpak run -v -v ${app_id} command to get more debug output?
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I found that -v -v gave an enormous amount of mostly not-useful output, so I'll post the output of -v first, and if someone thinks they could help with much more logging, then maybe I'll follow with -v -v later The one thing here that strikes me as possibly relevant is the complaint of no systemd user session. I wonder if Brave could really be dependent on systemd (which I don't have and don't want), and the final error output is just a fluke, in that it looks like something different?
| Code: | $ flatpak run -v com.brave.Browser
F: No installations directory in /etc/flatpak/installations.d. Skipping
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/me/.local/share/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/me/.local/share/flatpak
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/me/.local/share/flatpak
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: /var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/24.08/4032cef5b0b698b46df684fc68527252cb7350f39bd90b25bb0c79766911de23/files/lib32 does not exist
F: Cleaning up unused container id 2497080287
F: Cleaning up per-app-ID state for com.brave.Browser
F: Allocated instance id 2783030197
F: Add defaults in dir /com/brave/Browser/
F: Add locks in dir /com/brave/Browser/
F: Not sharing "/home/me/.config/kioslaverc" with sandbox: Unable to open path "/home/me/.config/kioslaverc": No such file or directory
F: Not sharing "/run/.heim_org.h5l.kcm-socket" with sandbox: Unable to open path "/run/.heim_org.h5l.kcm-socket": No such file or directory
F: Allowing wayland access
F: Allowing x11 access
F: Allowing pulseaudio access
F: Pulseaudio user configuration file '/home/me/.config/pulse/client.conf': Error opening file /home/me/.config/pulse/client.conf: No such file or directory
F: CUPS configuration file '/home/me/.cups/client.conf': Error opening file /home/me/.cups/client.conf: No such file or directory
F: Could not find CUPS server
F: Failed to run in transient scope: No systemd user session available, cgroups not available
F: Running 'bwrap --args 42 -- xdg-dbus-proxy --args=44'
F: Running 'bwrap --args 42 -- brave'
Failed to initialize (is the Flatpak D-Bus portal working?): Failed to get portal proxy: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory) |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Try this:
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sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/bwrap
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Then attempt to run Brave.
If it works then restore the binary
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sudo chmod u-s /usr/bin/bwrap
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Then rebuild
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sys-apps/bubblewrap
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With USE="suid".
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