bug#40489: flatpak segfaults

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:24:53PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> Hey buddy, I tried running flatpak on a freshly installed Guix system (today) 
> and for some reason it segfaults when I try to add the flathub repo. I was 
> told to report the bug to you.
> 
> I've attached the command output, Flatpak version is 1.4.3.
> 
> It also complains about XDG_DATA_DIRS as you can see, but not sure yet if 
> that affects usage or not. It's possible I installed it wrong, but was 
> generally told that "guix install flatpak" is all that is need for it to 
> work. I'd like flatpaks to be installed for all users on the system, but not 
> yet sure if that's feasible.
> 
> Thank you!

> $ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub 
> https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
> 
> Note that the directories 
> 
> '/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
> '/home/ben/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
> 
> are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
> applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
> session is restarted.
> 
> Segmentation fault

I was able to recreate your segfault. Not helpful to the segfault part
but still useful information for you, I was able to run 'flatpak --user 
remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo'
and then 'flatpak search gimp' and other searches worked for me.

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