I installed snapd and it seems to be mostly working, except I can only launch a snap app if I run
xhost +
first. Anyone know if there’s a way around this? Running KDE desktop. Thanks.
What is output of “echo $XAUTHORITY” in your KDE session (in terminal)?
It’s the path to ~/.Xauthority. I tried deleting it, but I have the same problem when it gets recreated. Attempting to launch an app from the command line (without xhost +) yields:
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Launching an app from the command line with xhost + shows the following errors:
03:14:20:0921 Gs /etc/PackageKit/Vendor.conf file not found
03:14:21:0044 Gs Only 0 apps for recent list, hiding
03:14:21:0411 Gs hiding category audio-video featured applications: found only 0 to show, need at least 9
03:14:21:0411 Gs hiding category productivity featured applications: found only 0 to show, need at least 9
03:14:21:0714 Gs FIXME: Unknown progress handling is not yet implemented for GsProgressButton
03:14:21:0714 Gs FIXME: Unknown progress handling is not yet implemented for GsProgressButton
03:14:21:0714 Gs FIXME: Unknown progress handling is not yet implemented for GsProgressButton
03:14:21:0714 Gs FIXME: Unknown progress handling is not yet implemented for GsProgressButton
03:14:21:0714 Gs failed to create an app for */*/*/*/system/*
03:14:21:0723 Gs failed to create an app for */*/*/*/system/*
03:14:21:0723 Gs failed to get system app
03:14:22:0395 Gs automatically prevented from changing kind on system/snap/*/desktop-application/io.snapcraft.snapd-PMrrV4ml8uWuEUDBT8dSGnKUYbevVhc4/latest/stable from desktop-application to unknown!
03:14:22:0698 Gs automatically prevented from changing kind on system/snap/*/runtime/io.snapcraft.bare-EISPgh06mRh1vordZY9OZ34QHdd7OrdR/latest/stable from runtime to unknown!
03:14:23:0006 Gs automatically prevented from changing kind on system/snap/*/runtime/io.snapcraft.core18-CSO04Jhav2yK0uz97cr0ipQRyqg0qQL6/latest/stable from runtime to unknown!
03:14:23:0320 Gs automatically prevented from changing kind on system/snap/*/runtime/io.snapcraft.core20-DLqre5XGLbDqg9jPtiAhRRjDuPVa5X1q/latest/stable from runtime to unknown!
The Vendor.conf file does exist, not sure why the app thinks otherwise.
I think I got this resolved. The hostname was not set on my system somehow. It showed in the terminal window but /etc/hostname was blank. Updated that, and now the snap apps work correctly.