Accessed bazaar once, now it doesn't open, maybe because of kwallet?

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Hi folks,

I’ve just started down the UBlue road after two decades of Ubuntu.

I wanted to use KDE, and I didn’t want snaps. I needed NVidia proprietary hardware support, to run CUDA. If I was going to get CUDA with KDE, it also had to work with Wayland. I have all of that working, with a new Aurora 43 install.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that I can’t open bazaar. I was able to open it when I booted from USB, but my permanent install isn’t functioning.

I am only guessing, but I think that my problem might have something to do with kwallet. There appears to be a fundamentally different approach to security on the Fedora branch than what I’m used to using.

I am pretty sure that I got a kwallet popup when I tried to launch bazaar. I tried to enter my admin-privileged account password (root is disabled). Kwallet did not accept that password. I tried to enter nothing. Kwallet also did not accept that. I opened kwallet and tried to create a new wallet with a password that matches my account password. I could not.

Finally, I tried to disable the kwallet feature altogether. I could do this, and then bazaar would try to launch. After 10 seconds of a busy cursor showing, the bazaar icon disappears from the taskbar, and nothing starts.

Shucks, this is exactly like a bug I once had with the Ubuntu app store.

I found a message on this forum which recommended trying to pkill bazaar and then trying to launch it again. No luck.

The Aurora offline docs don’t even mention the wallet once. I didn’t know that it was coming, how to manage it correctly, or whether I’ve even managed to break it while trying to make it work!

Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

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Which image are you on? rpm-ostree status gives you the info

But I would first make sure you are updated to the most recent image version. The one that the installers puts in, is atleast a week old, or maybe two, can’t remember when we last time updated ISOs atm

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Probably not related to kwallet. Some users have experienced Bazaar not starting, there is this open issue: [BUG?] Failed to register: Timeout was reached · Issue #1005 · kolunmi/bazaar · GitHub

If the issue persists after updating your system, you can install software by browsing flathub.org and clicking the “Install” button, and using Warehouse which is pre-installed to open a .flatpakref file. You can also use Warehouse to search flathub. Hope that helps.

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Thanks inffy. I’m still learning my way around, but it looks like I’m running an image from this week (2026-03-12), and I have one rollback image dated 2026-03-03.

State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: inactive
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:b6e3257bc1477522005fe9f56d3e2ec5c066f53df5f844fa4efbd58ca2915888
Version:43.20260312.1(2026-03-12T22:44:53Z)

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:2f5dcafbe9d06038867884137d9cbf92e9a8f8df1fcdf2cbf05d11c698018836
Version:43.20260303.1 (2026-03-03T07:01:24Z)

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Thanks xibasiqin.

Bazaar is back! I read the thread you posted, and I don’t know whether the actions that I took fixed something… or not.

Today I started by attempting to launch Bazaar from the desktop. It failed again. From the CLI, I executed flatpak run io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar. I got some warning messages, but then Bazaar started, and a banner displayed at the top of the windows, stating “you are running a new version of Bazaar.”

I quit Bazaar, and attempted to launch it from the desktop. And this time, it worked.

I really do not understand what’s going on yet. But I can proceed while I continue to educate myself.