Flatpak apps all crash

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#1

In Leap 15.5, any Flatpak app I install using Discover crashes. I get the following messages:

2023-07-19T15:21:09.100205-04:00 jarfx plasmashell[19975]: error: While opening repository /home/jar/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo: Key file does not have group “core”
2023-07-19T15:21:09.161966-04:00 jarfx plasmashell[21703]: kf.kio.gui: Failed to register new cgroup: "app-org.cubocore.CoreHunt-88f53b557e0947c3b6923eb0ca3cb9d8.scope" "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown" "Process with ID 19975 does not exist."

Also

jarfx:/home/jar/.local/share/flatpak/repo # ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 jar  users  0 Mar 20 19:19 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  68 Jul 19 11:16 confiig
drwxr-xr-x 1 jar  users  0 Jun  5  2019 extensions
drwxr-xr-x 1 jar  users  0 Jun  5  2019 objects
drwxr-xr-x 1 jar  users 38 Jun  5  2019 refs
drwxr-xr-x 1 jar  users  0 Jun  5  2019 state
drwxr-xr-x 1 jar  users 10 Jun  5  2019 tmp

What is the issue here?
Flatpak apps do not seem to be able to managed using Yast2 Software Management either.

#2

Why do you have root owned files in your user directory with wrong file name “confiig”?

#3

The name was a typo. config was empty. But it should not make a difference now. It is gone.

#4

It’s very specifically because your config file is empty. I was able to reproduce the error by replacing config with an empty file.

The contents of my config file are:

[core]
repo_version=1
mode=bare-user-only
min-free-space-size=500MB

Setting yours this way may resolve your issue.

As for why flatpak isn’t managed by YaST - YaST’s software management is RPM-focused, and has never included other package formats. I don’t know if there are plans to change that.

#5

That worked. Thanks.

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#6

Hi
Or add/re-add manually by the user?

flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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