Bug 1788947 - Unable to run some apps packaged by flatpak by clicking the icon
Summary: Unable to run some apps packaged by flatpak by clicking the icon
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: flatpak
Version: 31
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: David King
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-01-08 12:28 UTC by Junjie Yuan
Modified: 2020-07-08 05:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-07-08 05:00:16 UTC
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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.


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