Bazaar Crashing on Startup

It’s me again! Ill probably post more issues as I am trying to transition over to Linux. I didn’t see anything about this issue so I figured I would post it to see whats up.

Bazaar was working until a few days ago. Now, when I launch the app. I get the loading icon where the contents for the curated page would be. After a few seconds the app will promptly close. If im quick enough and click the search button I can search and install apps, but upon leaving the search Bazaar will promptly crash again.

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Are you on the newest image?

Hi inffy, how do I check? I’m totally green. I did run a ujust -update

Post rpm-ostree status

And youcan just run the ujust update again. Crashing issue should have been fixed yesterday

m@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status~ Adam@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
Digest: sha256:3078e578b54c6d484b491a1c0dece7401db0f74c2550d34a86a3deb6cb7970b9
Version: 42.20250712 (2025-07-12T02:31:05Z)
Adam@bazzite:~$

What’s your hardware? A screenshot of you running fastfetch in the terminal should be enough.

I am also experiencing this issue in the exact same way as chathaa. I am not new to linux, but I am new to atomic desktops. As of 3 hours ago, the bazaar was working just fine. Fast forward to after some gaming and the bazaar opens, loads, then immediately exits.

So far I’ve tried logging out, rebooting, and running ujust update, nothing has worked so far.

Here is my rpm-ostree status printout:

State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
                  Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)
          LayeredPackages: coolercontrol liquidctl

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:1cbe57fc5291f98511f9fad8db4734e359d6d0953c91574927d6122e540305bf
                  Version: 42.20250715 (2025-07-15T05:48:00Z)
          LayeredPackages: coolercontrol liquidctl

Additionally, my fastfetch information if that’s of any use or interest:

  
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%            
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-nvidia-open:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.15.6-103.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  1 hour, 19 mins
  ==                  =======######  
  ==                  =========#####      󰻠  AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.85 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####       8.87 GiB / 31.24 GiB (28%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       85.02 GiB / 930.23 GiB (9%) - btrfs [Read-only]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####     󰍹  2560x1440 @ 144 Hz (as 2229x1253) in 27" [External]
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰍹  2560x1440 @ 144 Hz (as 2229x1253) in 27" [External] *
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  Corsair Corsair Gaming K95 RGB PLATINUM Keyboard Mouse
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######  
     %%%%###===============#######        󰕮  KDE Plasma 6.4.2
      %#######==========#########           KWin (Wayland)
        #######################             bash 5.2.37
          ###################               Ptyxis 48.4
              ###########                 󰏖  2704 (rpm), 39 (flatpak), 38 (brew)

                                           ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%            
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-nvidia-open:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.15.6-103.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  16 mins
  ==                  =======######  
  ==                  =========#####      󰾰  MS-7D25 (1.0)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰻠  12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       9.91 GiB / 46.89 GiB (21%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####       1.43 TiB / 1.79 TiB (80%) - ext4
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######       657.81 GiB / 952.28 GiB (69%) - btrfs [Read-only]
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰍹  1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 55" [External]
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######       󰖺  Mouse passthrough (absolute)
     %%%%###===============#######   
      %#######==========#########         󰕮  KDE Plasma 6.4.2
        #######################             KWin (Wayland)
          ###################               bash 5.2.37
              ###########                   Ptyxis 48.4
                                          󰏖  2689 (rpm), 78 (flatpak)
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
                  Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)
          LayeredPackages: kvantum

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
                  Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)

Hey there, same issue on my end, however I’ve been able to find that the Service for Bazaar isn’t launching in particular. I’mma try force-installing it to see what that does.

I should also state that attempting to start Bazaar’s service manually doesn’t seem to help either, as it just hangs post command bazaar service being used. Launching bazaar itself via CLI gets this error for me:

(bazaar:4468): Adwaita-WARNING **: 16:57:32.914: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
The Bazaar service is not running.
The following commands will start the daemon:
  bazaar service
  bazaar window --auto-service
  bazaar open ...
Exiting...

I forgot to bring up the settings bit because post removal of that file, it still had the rest, my apologies for the missing info.

Same problem here. I updated my install today.

When I try to start bazaar through the terminal it says the following:

(bazaar:8907): Gtk-WARNING **: 00:00:18.945: Unknown key gtk-modules in /home/gromuhl/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini

(bazaar:8907): Adwaita-WARNING **: 00:00:19.009: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.

Funny thing is, I cannot even find the settings.ini file there, so I don’t know what happened there.

Try running GSK_RENDERER=opengl bazaar window --auto-service and if it works, make sure your .desktop for Bazaar is the same

It does on my end, how does one go about “mak[ing] sure your .desktop for Bazaar is the same,” is it just adding that to the command that runs upon launch, say from the launcher or a desktop shortcut?

Assuming that is the case (t’is what I just did via the KDE Menu Editor) it gives the following as a popup error in the app:

failed to load local flatpak bundle '/home/[USER]/bazaar': Failed to open file "/home/[USER]/bazaar": open() failed: No such file or directory

Adding it as a folder and maxing out permissions results in:

failed to load local flatpak bundle '/home/[USER]/bazaar': Failed to open file "/home/[USER]/bazaar": open() failed: Permission Denied

And adding it as a file instead (no contents in the file) results in:

failed to load local flatpak bundle '/home/[USER]/bazaar': Invalid checksum of length 0 expected 32

If that means anything. None of the above seem to impact performance however, still able to install and uninstall flatpaks, just a popup message that doesn’t come up with Bazaar being launched via CLI.

As you smart folks are troubleshooting this, I’m able to say the same holds true for me and provide any information that could help.

Here is my rpm-ostree status -

chris@CGBazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
                  Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)
          LayeredPackages: plasma-discover

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0c08c9c91a15f45e6d4c5c09ccbc5d95e3345930745e804a9348994b646f66f2
                  Version: 42.20250715.1 (2025-07-15T23:14:13Z)

Sorry for the delay, here is mine.

                                            Adam@bazzite
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%            
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-nvidia-open:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.15.6-103.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  6 hours, 28 mins
  ==                  =======######  
  ==                  =========#####      󰻠  AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####     󰍛  AMD Radeon Graphics [Integrated]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       9.90 GiB / 30.49 GiB (32%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####       482.19 GiB / 1.82 TiB (26%) - btrfs [Read-only]
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰍹  3840x2160 @ 120 Hz (as 2560x1440) in 72" [External, HDR]
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  extest fake device
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######       󰖺  Keychron  Keychron Link-KM
     %%%%###===============#######   
      %#######==========#########         󰕮  KDE Plasma 6.4.2
        #######################             KWin (Wayland)
          ###################               bash 5.2.37
              ###########                   Ptyxis 48.4
                                          󰏖  2686 (rpm), 51 (flatpak)

Seems to be consistently all be Nvidia image? I can confirm that the app at least runs on my ROG Ally which has AMD GPU.

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Yes, I believe you can simply edit the existing Bazaar .desktop file:

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Any tips to bypass the read only nature of it? Sudo Nano-ing didn’t work, modifying it as Admin wasn’t permitted, and perms are all blocked out on it itself.

I can also confirm my Framework 13(iirc? Oldest gen) is fine too thus far, though I don’t recall if I updated recently

You can copy it to your /home/$USER/.local/share/applications, then edit it there. In my experience, it usually supersedes the normal entry from the system (at least that’s the usual behaviour when I use KDE’s built-in Edit Applications option in their launcher).

Alternatively just copy it to your Desktop folder in home?

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Oh, apparently not only is there a copy already there, but it’s already got the edit made. I assume that’s from the KDE Menu Editor given I hadn’t edited it elsewhere at all. Testing it now, it…

Wait, wrong PC…

Nope, even still, editing in /home/$USER/.local/share/applications, now doesn’t even launch. Here’s how it’s written now, with the new edit in it.

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Utility;
Comment=Add, remove or update flatpak software on this computer
Exec=GSK_RENDERER=opengl bazaar --auto-service
Icon=io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar
Keywords=GTK;System;PackageManager;Discover;Flatpak;Software;Store;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/flatpak;
Name=Bazaar
NoDisplay=false
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

I got it to launch this way. Try this string.

Exec=GSK_RENDERER=opengl bazaar window --auto-service

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