Hi all We are providing some local schools here with customized Debian Live images. Usually they are a combination of Debian stable and some selected backports (LibreOffice, Linux kernel, ...). Now we have some schools that really want to use the current versions of GIMP and Kdenlive. Both packages are not up to date in stretch-backports, but are available as flatpaks on flathub, see:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gimp.GIMP https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.kdenlive Now that flatpak 1.2.3 has arrived in stretch-backports, I wanted to integrate the GIMP and Kdenlive flatpak packages in our Debian Live builds. Unfortunately, calling flatpak in a live-build hook fails with some dbus and polkit error messages. Here is an example that just tries to add the flathub repo: cat config/hooks/live/add_flathub.chroot #!/bin/sh flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo After adding this hook live-build fails with the following error message: ------------------------------- P: Begin executing hooks... (flatpak remote-add:9603): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_register_object: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed ** (flatpak remote-add:9603): CRITICAL **: polkit_authority_register_authentication_agent_with_options_sync: assertion 'POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY (authority)' failed Segmentation fault E: config/hooks/live/add_flathub.chroot failed (exit non-zero). You should check for errors. P: Begin unmounting filesystems... ------------------------------- I tried prefixing the call to flatpak with dbus-run-session, but it still fails. Is there any dbus/polkit trick to be able to call flatpak in a live-build hook? Best, Ronny
