Lutris refuses to start

Bazzite
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Absolutely nothing visual happens when clicking on launcher icon.

Error logs:

$> flatpak run net.lutris.Lutris
F: Not sharing "/usr/share/icons" with sandbox: Path "/usr" is reserved by Flatpak
F: Not sharing "/usr/share/themes" with sandbox: Path "/usr" is reserved by Flatpak
2024-09-22 14:08:08,576: Starting Lutris 0.5.17
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 480, in do_command_line
    init_lutris()
  File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/startup.py", line 133, in init_lutris
    init_dirs()
  File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/startup.py", line 48, in init_dirs
    create_folder(directory)
  File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/util/system.py", line 401, in create_folder
    os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
  File "<frozen os>", line 215, in makedirs
  File "<frozen os>", line 225, in makedirs
OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/home/user001/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/icons/hicolor/128x128'
2024-09-22 14:08:08,577: Shutting down Lutris

Obviously, everything inside /home is definitely not a read-only FS.

  • sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(id -ng) ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris doesn’t help at all.
  • flatpak override --user --filesystem=home net.lutris.Lutris doesn’t help either
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This is the flatpak, we pre-install Lutris as a native package. Please use that copy.

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Everything worked on another machine, where I’ve rebased from Silverblue to Bazzite. Lutris was installed as a flatpak before rebasing.

On my current machine, where I’ve installed Bazzite from an ISO, I encountered this issue. For some reason, I didn’t have Lutris .desktop icon launcher after setup.

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Lutris is pre-installed as an RPM in the image and the desktop definition is in /usr/share/applications. You can’t not have it under any circumstance. Remove the flatpak and run Lutris in a terminal if you don’t immediately see the desktop icon.

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Yes, I verified it myself now. My confusion comes from not having a dedicated Lutris RPM .desktop launcher file. It was not present in the GNOME App menu, so I installed it as a flatpak.

6

I can confirm that file is present in a read only directory as part of the image. There is no way for that file to not exist on a bootable Bazzite install. It’s even added to the dash/task bar by default in both GNOME and KDE.

7

This is very strange. I can swear I was trying to run it from GNOME App menu, and it was not working no matter what…

And now it works.

Thank you anyway for the swift response.

8

So, there is something fishy going on with Lutris .desktop file.

When I search for it in search bar, I get launcher for RPM. When I look it up myself in the App menu, I get Flatpak.

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Ok, for anyone having similar issues, do this:

#1. Remove Lutris flatpak
flatpak uninstall -y net.lutris.Lutris
#2. Remove Lutris flatpak .desktop file if it was not removed. It interferes with proper RPM one somehow, GNOME magic
rm ~/.local/share/applications/net.lutris.Lutris.desktop
#3. Log out & log in back, now you should have your proper Lutris launcher
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