Bug 1788947

Summary:	Unable to run some apps packaged by flatpak by clicking the icon
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Junjie Yuan <yuan>
Component:	flatpak	Assignee:	David King <amigadave>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	31	CC:	amigadave, klember, yuan
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Last Closed:	2020-07-08 05:00:16 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Junjie Yuan 2020-01-08 12:28:58 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to run some apps packaged by flatpak by clicking the icon, such as gnome videos (Totem) and gedit. But other flatpak applications can be launched, such as jetbrains idea, datagrip and pycharm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OS:
Fedora Silverblue 31
$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.4.3
$ xdg-open --version
xdg-open 1.1.3+


How reproducible:
see below.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Totem (or org.gnome.gedit)
2.click gnome videos (Totem) icon to start it
3.Mouse animation shows loading but fails to start successfully

Actual results:
start app

Expected results:
can't start app

Additional info:
journalctl output:
Jan 08 20:09:22 xps gnome-shell[1586]: Received error from DBus search provider firefox.desktop: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Jan 08 20:09:22 xps systemd[1076]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.gnome.ControlCenter.SearchProvider.
Jan 08 20:09:22 xps systemd[1076]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.gnome.Nautilus.
Jan 08 20:09:22 xps gnome-shell[1586]: Received error from DBus search provider firefox.desktop: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Jan 08 20:09:23 xps nautilus[18595]: Source ID 95 was not found when attempting to remove it
Jan 08 20:09:23 xps gnome-shell[1586]: Received error from DBus search provider firefox.desktop: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable

Comment 1 Junjie Yuan 2020-01-08 12:31:36 UTC

Additional information:
These apps can be run by running 'flatpak run app.name'.

Comment 2 Junjie Yuan 2020-07-08 05:00:16 UTC

It didn't happen again for a long time.