Ben Sturmfels <[email protected]> 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
