Snap and Flatpak applications are not launching

Snap and flatpak apps work when I install them from their respective stores but fail to launch AT ALL afterwards

Even the snap store GUI fails to launch

Zoom,Audacity,Blender from snap store didn’t launch

Freetube,HexChat didn’t launch from flatpak

XFCE BTW(if that is important)

Yes , I have set them up from the tutorials in same URLs listed

@quessadillaV2:

Please take a look in the systemd Journal – “journalctl” …

  • For example, I notice that, I have some entries like these –

Jun 15 17:46:33 systemd[24469]: Failed to start app-flatpak-org.signal.Signal-838.scope.
Jun 15 17:46:33 systemd[24469]: app-flatpak-org.signal.Signal-838.scope: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 15 17:46:33 dbus-daemon[24489]: [session uid=1000 pid=24489] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak' unit='flatpak-portal.service' requested by ':1.248' (uid=1000 pid=843 comm="/usr/bin/xdg-dbus-proxy --args=40 ")
Jun 15 17:46:33 systemd[24469]: Starting flatpak portal...
Jun 15 17:46:33 dbus-daemon[24489]: [session uid=1000 pid=24489] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak'
Jun 15 17:46:33 systemd[24469]: Started flatpak portal.
Jun 15 17:46:33 systemd[24469]: Started app-flatpak-org.signal.Signal-865.scope.

As far as I recall, “Signal” started OK but, the functionality wasn’t quite that which the mobile telephone version gives, which is why I removed it but,

  • The above example may well supply some clues as to where you can begin searching.

Thanks !

But I shifted to a different distro:(