Flatpaks with `DBusActivatable=true` fail to start through menu #138956

mrckndt · 2021-09-22T15:01:20Z

Describe the bug

When trying to start a flatpak which contains DBusActivatable=true in its .desktop file it refuses to start (tested in GNOME shell). Commenting out DBusActivatable=true (tested in copied .desktop to home dir) or just flatpak run .... seems to work fine.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install e.g. org.gnome.Geary
Run it from GNOME shell

Expected behavior

Flatpak should open.

Notify maintainers

@jtojnar

Metadata

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.12.13-xanmod1-cacule, NixOS, 21.05.3294.3397f0ede9e (Okapi)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.15`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-21.05.3294.3397f0ede9e"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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Artturin · 2021-09-22T15:38:00Z

Try this, maybe it'll give a error or something
nix run nixos.gnome.gtk -c gtk-launch foot
foot terminal used as a example desktop file in share/applications

jtojnar · 2021-09-22T16:19:41Z

Pre-requisite would be Flatpak linking D-Bus service files to a well-known location. Not sure if it currently does that.

https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/guidelines/maintainer/integrating.html#d-bus-activation

mrckndt · 2021-09-22T16:25:25Z

Try this, maybe it'll give a error or something
nix run nixos.gnome.gtk -c gtk-launch foot
foot terminal used as a example desktop file in share/applications

@Artturin there is nothing. Tbh i don't get how this helps. FWIW gnome-maps (also with dbus actication) installed with nix works; the gnome-maps flatpak not.

mrckndt · 2021-09-22T16:35:27Z

@jtojnar on both my Fedora Silverblue machine and NixOS machine the services are symlinked to the same location if that's what you mean.

(chapek9) ~ $ ls -l /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Geary.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 99 21. Sep 02:30 /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Geary.service -> ../../../../app/org.gnome.Geary/current/active/export/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Geary.service

jtojnar · 2021-09-22T17:01:55Z

Maybe we need to add /var/lib/flatpak/exports to services.dbus.packages:

nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/system/dbus.nix

Line 16 in 63ec261

serviceDirectories = cfg.packages;

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/63ec2613bd109c36d29aaf015152da92a7984f7f/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus/make-dbus-conf.nix

Artturin · 2021-09-22T19:13:28Z

jtojnar · 2021-09-22T19:19:42Z

Did you try adding the path to services.dbus.packages?

Artturin · 2021-09-22T21:48:35Z

Did you try adding the path to services.dbus.packages?

yes
/var/lib/flatpak/exports

/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/dbus-1/services
got added to /etc/dbus-1/session.conf
doesn't work

Artturin · 2021-09-23T00:57:54Z

this is what i have for now
i switched to dbus-broker since fedora is using that and it has better logs

it does find the geany service file but it Failed at step EXEC spawning flatpak: No such file or directory

if someone wants to try:

this patch applied to nixos-unstable branch
very rough for now

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/flatpak.nix b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/flatpak.nix
index 7da92cc9f26..868714ce603 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/flatpak.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/flatpak.nix
@@ -28,11 +28,59 @@ in {
       }
     ];
 
-    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.flatpak ];
+    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.flatpak pkgs.xdg-dbus-proxy pkgs.dbus-broker ];
 
-    services.dbus.packages = [ pkgs.flatpak ];
+    services.dbus.packages = [ pkgs.flatpak /*"/var/lib/flatpak/exports"*/ ];
 
-    systemd.packages = [ pkgs.flatpak ];
+    systemd.services.dbus-broker = {
+      path = [ pkgs.flatpak ];
+      enable = true;
+      aliases = [ "dbus.service" ];
+      # Don't restart dbus-daemon. Bad things tend to happen if we do.
+      reloadIfChanged = true;
+      restartTriggers = [ "/etc/dbus-1" ];
+      environment = { LD_LIBRARY_PATH = config.system.nssModules.path; };
+    };
+    systemd.user.services.dbus-broker = {
+      path = [ pkgs.flatpak ];
+      enable = true;
+      wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
+      aliases = [ "dbus.service" ];
+      # Don't restart dbus-daemon. Bad things tend to happen if we do.
+      reloadIfChanged = true;
+      restartTriggers = [ "/etc/dbus-1" ];
+      environment = { LD_LIBRARY_PATH = config.system.nssModules.path; };
+    };
+
+    #systemd.services.dbus = {
+    #  enable = true;
+    #  aliases = [ "dbus.service" ];
+    #};
+    #systemd.user.services.dbus = {
+    #  enable = true;
+    #  aliases = [ "dbus.service" ];
+    #};
+
+    systemd.sockets.dbus = {
+      description = "D-Bus System Message Bus Socket";
+      wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ];
+      socketConfig = { 
+        ListenStream = "/run/dbus/system_bus_socket";
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.user.sockets.dbus = {
+      description = "D-Bus System Message Bus Socket";
+      wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ];
+      socketConfig = { 
+        ListenStream = "%t/bus";
+        ExecStartPost = "-/run/current-system/systemd/bin/systemctl --user set-environment DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=%t/bus";
+      };
+    };
+    #systemd.services.dbus.enable = false;
+    #systemd.user.services.dbus.enable = false;
+
+    systemd.packages = [ pkgs.flatpak pkgs.dbus-broker ];
 
     environment.profiles = [
       "$HOME/.local/share/flatpak/exports"
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/system/dbus.nix b/nixos/modules/services/system/dbus.nix
index d4cacb85694..85eb4350f73 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/system/dbus.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/system/dbus.nix
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ in
 
     users.groups.messagebus.gid = config.ids.gids.messagebus;
 
-    systemd.packages = [ pkgs.dbus.daemon ];
+    #systemd.packages = [ pkgs.dbus.daemon ];
 
     security.wrappers.dbus-daemon-launch-helper = {
       source = "${pkgs.dbus.daemon}/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper";
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
index b7e0a6b6158..631c173e1ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/dbus-broker/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   PKG_CONFIG_SYSTEMD_SYSTEMDUSERUNITDIR = "${placeholder "out"}/lib/systemd/user";
   PKG_CONFIG_SYSTEMD_CATALOGDIR = "${placeholder "out"}/lib/systemd/catalog";
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace src/launch/launcher.c \
+      --replace "/usr/share/dbus-1" "${dbus.daemon}/share/dbus-1"
+  '';
+
   postInstall = ''
     install -Dm644 $src/README.md $out/share/doc/dbus-broker/README

{
  inputs = {
    #nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    nixpkgs.url = "/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs";
    #nixpkgs.url = "path:../nixgits/nixpkgs1";
    #pkgsReview.url = "github:Artturin/nixpkgs/pipewirejackldpath";
    #pkgsReview.url = "path:../nixgits/my-nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = inputs@{ self, nixpkgs, /*pkgsReview*/ }: {

    nixosConfigurations.vm = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
      modules = [
        ({ pkgs, ... }: {
          #hardware.video.hidpi.enable = true;
        })
        ({ pkgs, ... }: {
          #disabledModules = [ "services/desktops/pipewire/pipewire.nix" ];
          imports = [
            #"${inputs.pkgsReview}/nixos/modules/services/desktops/pipewire/pipewire.nix"

            #"${inputs.nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix"
            #"${inputs.nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix"
            ## For virtualisation settings
            "${inputs.nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix"
            "${inputs.nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/profiles/clone-config.nix"
            "${inputs.nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/channel.nix"
          ];
          environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
            (neovim.override { viAlias = true; vimAlias = true;})
            ranger
            ripgrep
            tree
            #firefox
          ];

          #hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;

          services.xserver = {
            enable = true;
            #displayManager.lightdm = {
            #  enable = true;
            #};
            displayManager.autoLogin = {
              user = "user";
              enable = true;
            };
            desktopManager.gnome = {
              enable = true;
            };
          };

          environment.gnome.excludePackages = with pkgs.gnome; [
            gnome-weather
            gnome-calendar
            gnome-maps
            gnome-contacts
            gnome-software
            gnome-calculator
            gnome-calendar
            gnome-characters
            gnome-clocks
            gnome-font-viewer
            gnome-logs
            gnome-maps
            gnome-music
            pkgs.gnome-photos
            totem
            epiphany
            geary
            gnome-disk-utility
            seahorse
            sushi
            evince
            cheese
            eog
            baobab
            pkgs.evolution
            gnome-backgrounds
          ];

          services.flatpak.enable = true;
          # Documentation for these is in nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix
          virtualisation = {
            memorySize = 1024 * 3;
            diskSize = 1024 * 4;
            cores = 8;
          };

          programs = {
            zsh.enable = true;
          };
          environment.etc."zshrc.local" = { source = "${pkgs.grml-zsh-config}/etc/zsh/zshrc"; };

          boot.tmpOnTmpfs = true;
          #boot.tmpOnTmpfsSize = "80%";

          documentation.enable = false;
          users.mutableUsers = false;
          users.defaultUserShell = pkgs.zsh;
          users.users.root = {
            password = "root";
          };
          users.users.user = {
            password = "user";
            isNormalUser = true;
            extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
          };
        })
      ];
    };
    # So that we can just run 'nix run' instead of
    # 'nix build ".#nixosConfigurations.vm.config.system.build.vm" && ./result/bin/run-nixos-vm'
    defaultPackage.x86_64-linux = self.nixosConfigurations.vm.config.system.build.vm;
    defaultApp.x86_64-linux = {
      type = "app";
      program = "${self.defaultPackage.x86_64-linux}/bin/run-nixos-vm";
    };
  };
}

nix run to run this vm

stale · 2022-04-19T08:17:11Z

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

keanuk · 2022-08-08T12:03:28Z

I am still having this issue in 22.05 and the 22.11 unstable channel. I get the following log output when trying to launch one of the Flatpaks in question:
Activated service 'org.gnome.Boxes' failed: Failed to execute program org.gnome.Boxes: No such file or directory

nixos-discourse · 2022-08-15T18:10:41Z

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/some-flatpaks-fail-to-launch-from-launcher-icon/20818/3

nixos-discourse · 2022-08-15T18:42:22Z

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/some-flatpaks-fail-to-launch-from-launcher-icon/20818/4

sambuca1g · 2022-09-18T14:58:27Z

The patch hasn't been applied to unstable. The issue still persists...

alaviss · 2022-12-09T06:25:53Z

Here's my fix for the issue if you use dbus-broker:

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
  systemd.packages = [
    (pkgs.writeTextFile {
      name = "flatpak-dbus-overrides";
      destination = "/etc/systemd/user/dbus-.service.d/flatpak.conf";
      text = ''
        [Service]
        ExecSearchPath=${pkgs.flatpak}/bin
      '';
    })
  ];
}

This "solution" is based on the fact dbus-broker launch services via systemd using transient units with prefix dbus-.

systemd however does not have flatpak in its PATH and these transient units do not have them specified either.

The drop-in is used to point systemd to where it could find flatpak.

EDIT: Updated to not use systemd.services as it injects environment variables override that may break other applications.

meisme-dev · 2023-04-22T01:45:43Z

Same issue on unstable

nixos-discourse · 2023-06-03T14:03:59Z

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/boxes-flatpak-wont-start/28702/4

uricot · 2023-06-11T17:13:35Z

Having the same issue on nixos unstable channel

kenos1 · 2023-06-17T20:22:00Z

Same issue on 23.05

Irate-Walrus · 2023-07-05T04:54:29Z

I'm experiencing the same behaviour in sway with gnome.nautilus and flatpaks. However, the error I receive from .nautilus-wrapp gives no owner for PackageKit errors, so may be unrelated.

Xyphyn · 2023-07-16T02:32:24Z

This seems like quite a critical issue, any updates? Same error.

➜  ~ gapplication launch org.gnome.Boxes         
error sending Activate message to application: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program org.gnome.Boxes: No such file or directory
➜  ~

nixos-discourse · 2023-08-06T16:57:25Z

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flatpak-telegram-desktop-desktop-entry-problems/31374/1

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