While --share=network should give you access to unix-sockets, I don’t think 
that includes access to ‘/etc/hosts’ which lies outside of the sandbox 
therefore, I’d suspect the reference to ‘localhost’ is not resolving, so only 
the actual IP address will work.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 3, 2018, at 11:00 PM, Plutocrat <plutoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well I was bored at work (which isn't to say I didn't have any to do ...), so 
> I thought I'd fiddle around with the gnucash flatpak I had installed on my 
> laptop to see if I could figure out what was going on. 
> 
> I personally use the XML file, so I installed mysql-server, struggled to 
> reset the root password and then created a gnucash user and database. Tried 
> to save to host=localhost, db=gnucash, user=gnucash, password=xxxxxx and 
> experienced the same problem as previously detailed on this list. 
> 
> Cue an hour of digging through documentation on flatpak, 
> http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html
> 
> This looked promising, but didn't work, throwing an error. 
> flatpak permission-show org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
> This flag looked like it might work, but made no difference. 
> --share=network  (Giving network access also grants access to all host 
> services listening on abstract Unix sockets (due to how network namespaces 
> work)
> 
> Eventually I found the manifest.json file in /usr/lib/flatpak/blah/blah and 
> determined that it did actually have network access anyway. And /home/user/ 
> directory access, for the record. 
> 
> I was poring through mysql logs, and I saw 'Listening on 127.0.0.1', so I 
> thought I'd give that a try on the off-chance ... and it worked! Database 
> saved OK, and I could work off that one. 
> 
> So, apparently changing hostname from localhost to 127.0.0.1 was the magic 
> charm. Anyone else want to give it a try and report back?
> 
> P.
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