Flatpak not Starting

[rebeltaz]

Describe the bug
Geopard doesn't start either from the Menu or the command line

To Reproduce
Either click on Geopard in the Applications>Internet GUI menu
or run 'flatpak run "flatpak run com.ranfdev.Geopard" from the command line

Expected behavior
well... I expect the program to run 🤷

Software info (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04
• Geopard's Version : 1.6.0

Additional context
When I try to run the program, I get this error:

thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:74:17:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: BoolError { message: "Failed to initialize GTK", filename: "/run/build/Geopard/vendor/gtk4/src/rt.rs", function: "gtk4::rt::init", line: 158 }
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

I saw in Issue #43 that you asked if s/he was "overriding the gtk theme of flatpak apps". I'm not doing that specifically - and I wouldn't even know how - BUT ... I am running gnome-flashback. I am wondering if that is having the same effect as "overriding the gtk theme of flatpak apps"? If so, is there a way that this CAN run without removing gnome-flashback?

Thanks.

[tfuxu]

This is likely a different issue from that in #43. Could you run Geopard again with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 prepended to the command?

[rebeltaz]

When I run 'RUST_BACKTRACE=1 flatpak run com.ranfdev.Geopard', I get this

thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:74:17:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: BoolError { message: "Failed to initialize GTK", filename: "/run/build/Geopard/vendor/gtk4/src/rt.rs", function: "gtk4::rt::init", line: 158 }
stack backtrace:
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

I noticed that the suggestion changed from BACKTRACE=1 to BACKTRACE=full, so... I tried that:

thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:74:17:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: BoolError { message: "Failed to initialize GTK", filename: "/run/build/Geopard/vendor/gtk4/src/rt.rs", function: "gtk4::rt::init", line: 158 }
stack backtrace:
   0:     0x5631f92e7605 - <unknown>
   1:     0x5631f930bb8b - <unknown>
   2:     0x5631f92e4fff - <unknown>
   3:     0x5631f92e73de - <unknown>
   4:     0x5631f92e8699 - <unknown>
   5:     0x5631f92e83dd - <unknown>
   6:     0x5631f92e8b33 - <unknown>
   7:     0x5631f92e8a14 - <unknown>
   8:     0x5631f92e7ac9 - <unknown>
   9:     0x5631f92e8747 - <unknown>
  10:     0x5631f9136ba3 - <unknown>
  11:     0x5631f9137036 - <unknown>
  12:     0x5631f91692e4 - <unknown>
  13:     0x5631f918fc23 - <unknown>
  14:     0x5631f918fc39 - <unknown>
  15:     0x5631f92df410 - <unknown>
  16:     0x5631f9169915 - <unknown>
  17:     0x7f5c3a78408a - <unknown>
  18:     0x7f5c3a78414b - __libc_start_main
  19:     0x5631f91372d5 - <unknown>
  20:                0x0 - <unknown>

[tfuxu]

That's not really helpful 🫤 I've seen that you created an issue in Lagrange about this too, this sounds like an issue in Flatpak configuration.

Could you download some other app through Flatpak and check if it also crashes on startup?

[rebeltaz]

I do have several other apps installed using flatpak - bottles, discord, tellico... they all work with no issues. 🤷‍♂️

[tfuxu]

Probably something broke in the Geopard's sandbox runtime, as it panics at the very beginning of the UI code.
Try fully uninstalling Geopard, as it might as well be a configuration error: flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.ranfdev.Geopard

[rebeltaz]

Oddly, I ran an 'flatpak update' because I was having (a different) trouble getting another gemini browser I was trying (lagrange) to start and I didn't think to try Geopard again until you mentioned it. It's working now, so ... thank you? :lol: I appreciate it.