Deltachat won't start

[Lucas-Sichardt]

Hello,

flatpak seems to be very nice but I’m having trouble with my first installation. I have downloaded Delta Chat and it will not start with the following error:

bwrap: Can’t mount devpts on /newroot/dev/pts: Invalid argument [2 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Failed to let stub process know of exit: Ungültiger Dateideskriptor (errno 9)

What could this mean or what can I do about this?

[muelli]

hm.

sounds like something is wonky with your flatpak installation.

What version do you have installed? How have you installed it? How have you installed delta chat? And does installing any other app work? And what are you executing there that causes the problem you have?

I recommend running programs with LC_ALL=C so that you don't get localised output.

[Lucas-Sichardt]

Hi,  I have Flatpak version 1.12.6 and I have installed it via the ppa (flatpak stable). I have installed Deltachat by the download of chat.delta.desktop.flatpakref from flathub.org using the following command: flatpak install chat.delta.desktop.flatpakref I have to admit that I first did that with sudo and I found that nothing worked due to the permissions so I deinstalled again by the flatpak command sudo flatpak uninstall chat.delta.desktop and then I used the above command without sudo as shown to install. I'm executing the following command to start Deltachat and it gives the following outpout: @.*** ~ $ flatpak run chat.delta.desktop bwrap: Can't mount devpts on /newroot/dev/pts: Invalid argument [2 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Failed to let stub process know of exit: Ungültiger Dateideskriptor (errno 9) or: LC_ALL=C flatpak run chat.delta.desktop bwrap: Can't mount devpts on /newroot/dev/pts: Invalid argument [2 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Failed to let stub process know of exit: Bad file descriptor (errno 9)

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Diese Nachricht wurde gesendet mit Evolution unter Linux Mint Xfce.Am Freitag, den 20.01.2023, 01:35 -0800 schrieb muelli:

hm. sounds like something is wonky with your flatpak installation. What version do you have installed? How have you installed it? How have you installed delta chat? And does installing any other app work? And what are you executing there that causes the problem you have? I recommend running programs with LC_ALL=C so that you don't get localised output. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[muelli]

strange. can you follow https://flatpak.org/setup/ and install and run any app from flathub?

I have Flatpak version 1.12.6 and I have installed it via the ppa (flatpak stable).

I'm surprised. I would have expected flatpak to be in any serious distribution by now. Is there a reason why you chose the PPA over your distribution's repository? There's 1.12.7 now, too. But also 1.14.1. Can you work with the version of your distribution?

I could only find this from more than six years ago.

Anyway, unless you manage to run any other app, this is a problem with flatpak in your distribution. I suggest you file a bug with your distribution about it.

[Lucas-Sichardt]

I've tried it: Chessx can be installed and run via Flatpak. So it seems that Flatpak itself can run on my system - even if the system is runing on an old version of LinuxMint which is the reason for installing Flatpak via PPA - and the reason for using Flatpak at all to run Deltachat - I guess under a newer version of my distribution Deltachat would just run as .deb package...

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Diese Nachricht wurde gesendet mit Evolution unter Linux Mint Xfce.Am Freitag, den 20.01.2023, 12:33 -0800 schrieb muelli:

strange. can you follow https://flatpak.org/setup/ and install and run any app from flathub? I have Flatpak version 1.12.6 and I have installed it via the ppa (flatpak stable). I'm surprised. I would have expected flatpak to be in any serious distribution by now. Is there a reason why you chose the PPA over your distribution's repository? There's 1.12.7 now, too. But also 1.14.1. Can you work with the version of your distribution? I could only find this from more than six years ago. Anyway, unless you manage to run any other app, this is a problem with flatpak in your distribution. I suggest you file a bug with your distribution about it. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[nbenitez]

I could only find this from more than six years ago.

Apparently that bug was fixed in Bubblewrap 0.1.0, but maybe this may be another bubblewrap issue fixed recently.. Lucas maybe you need an updated Bubblewrap, maybe installed via PPA too..

[Lucas-Sichardt]

Thanks for your advice. I have installed Bubblewrap now via ppa. But it seems that there was no Bullbewrap installed at all before. Either way: Even after installing it, Deltachat won't start and it's the same error message. --

Diese Nachricht wurde gesendet mit Evolution unter Linux Mint Xfce.Am Freitag, den 20.01.2023, 14:57 -0800 schrieb Nelson Benitez Leon:

I could only find this from more than six years ago. Apparently that bug was fixed in Bubblewrap 0.1.0, but maybe this may be another bubblewrap issue fixed recently.. Lucas maybe you need an updated Bubblewrap, maybe installed via PPA too.. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[Simon-Laux]

Does this issue still exist?

[Simon-Laux]

please reopen or comment if it is still an issue