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Segfault on flatpak remote-add

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 35591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: jonathan <at> terracrypt.net
Subject: bug#35591: Segfault on flatpak remote-add
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 22:23:39 +0200

Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> 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

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