Colin, Did you try `--share=network`?
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html <http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html> Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 26, 2018, at 3:22 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for working that out Geert. It has allowed me to get gnucash > to generate a trace file by running > sudo flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=/tmp > It appears that the flatpak does not have access to /tmp without this. > It would be better, obviously, if that were built into the flatpak, > assuming that it can be. I have updated the issue [1]. > > Having done that I am trying to get mysql access going. Looking in > the trace file I see on startup > WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child > process “perl” (No such file or directory) > but I think that is not the problem. When I attempt to Save As to mysql I get > CRIT <gnc.backend.dbi> [GncDbiBackend<Type>::session_begin()] Unable > to connect to database 'gnucash' > If I stop the mysql server I get the same message which suggests it is > not able to access the server.. > The user/pwd are correct, confirmed by CLI access to the server, which > is localhost. Also mysql access works on a home built version of 3.2 > on the same machine. > > I have looked at the documentation for flatpak override but I can't > see anything there that might fix this issue. > > Colin > > [1] https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/issues/16 > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 15:17, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: >> >> I have been playing with the gnucash flatpak package in the last few days. >> >> And I can add some information regarding the file open issues (though not >> everything is clear yet). >> >> For starters I can confirm that by default USB sticks and network shares are >> not accessible. I have fouind this is due to flatpak's security policy which >> states: by default allow as little access as possible. This clearly excludes >> mounted media and network shares. >> >> This limitation can be relaxed though with the "flatpak override" command. In >> particular by running >> flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=<path-to-allow> >> >> <path-to-allow> can be any filesystem path you wish to access from within >> gnucash. For example on Fedora usb sticks are mounted under /run/media so I >> have run >> >> flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=/run/media >> >> And now USB sticks appear in the gnucash File->Open dialog. >> >> It appears on Ubuntu and derivatives however usb sticks are mounted under >> /media so on those platforms the command would become >> >> flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=/media >> >> The same can be done for any network shares that are not mounted under your >> home directory. For example if you have a mounted network share under /mynet >> you can allow access by running >> >> flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash --filesystem=/mynet >> >> One caveat: >> I had some permission issues on my system, which I don't know were due to how >> my system is set up or a bug in flatpak. As my flatpaks are installed system >> wide, the flatpak information is stored in /var/lib/flatpak and only the root >> user has write access there. >> >> So I had to prefix each command with 'sudo'. With this the commands ran fine, >> but I still had issues because the file permissions of the generated override >> file and its parent directory, "overrides", didn't grant access to ordinary >> users. >> >> I fixed this by running following two commands: >> sudo chmod o=rx /var/lib/flatpak/overrides >> sudo chmod o+r /var/lib/flatpak/overrides/org.gnucash.GnuCash >> >> You may or may not need to do something similar on your system. YMMV. >> >> Hopefully this will make flatpak a viable alternative for more users that >> want >> to try out gnucash 3 while it's not yet available on their preferred >> platform. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert >> >> Op vrijdag 27 juli 2018 01:06:49 CEST schreef DaveC49: >>> Adrien, David, >>> >>> The same issue occurs in Linux Mint 19(Tara) which is Ubuntu 18.04 based. >>> Nemo (file explorer) can see the mounted USB stick and access it directly >>> or via the /media/<user>/ mount point for the device but the Gnucash file >>> open dialog neither sees the USB stick or /media/<user>/ mount point when >>> you click on other locations. It only lists a restricted set of the >>> directories under / by comparison with what can be accessed from Nemo. Not >>> being able to access the /media mount points would qualify as a bug. >>> >>> On LM19 /media has 755 permissions, the user directory under it has 750 and >>> the mounted USB stick has 755 permissions. >>> >>> The file->Open dialog in LibreOffice which looks to be a similar GTK3 dialog >>> does display the USB stick in the sidebar and it sees all the directories >>> under / as well as any networked locations which don't show up in GnuCash >>> either. >>> >>> if no-one has already filked a bug i will put one in later today. >>> >>> David Cousens >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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