Flatpak Applications Suddenly "Break" after kernel update

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This is almost a shot in the dark to be honest, but try doing sudo /etc/init.d/dbus start

I have no experience with it and I'm offering you my best guess as a result of searching, but dbus = Desktop bus, and is a way for applications to communicate with each other. Because flatpaks are containerized, they might be particularly sensitive to lack of access to dbus, and your logs are full of dbus failures. Particularly the last line of this new error: it indicates that dbus connection failure was fatal.

Or I could be clueless. But that's what I'd try personally if I saw that error.

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Seems harmless, I'm going to try running this command when the error happens again.

The problem is, I can't always reproduce the bug.

I can "increase" the chance by connecting it to a charger and running Firefox, but I'm not sure if it's just luck and they have no effect and Im just hallucinating.

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I ran it, no change.
This started to happen when I have updated some system components today.

here is a more detailed output of the bug:

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This is happening again!!

@Aravisian, defaulting to older kernel isn't working anymore after updating some system components

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Have you yet tried

flatpak update

flatpak repair

or

sudo apt install --reinstall flatpak

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Still happening even after doing these commands.

This is EXTREMELY annoying. i need to reboot every time this problem happens!

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Okay, does this happen with every Flatpak Program or only with a couple of them?

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Most of them will fail to boot. If they were already booted, then they're going to be extremely slow and some of them will refuse to even function. And the only solution is to quit them and reboot the laptop.
What I realized is that using the kernel 6.8.0-51 will delay the occurrence of the problem while using 6.8.0-52 will trigger the problem earlier.

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Hmm ... reinstall of flatpak didn't work ... Okay, try this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure flatpak
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Thanks, but it didnt help at all.

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I'm using an nvidia gpu with intel integrated gpu using option On demand

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When You have a Nvidia GPU, You should definetely switch to Xorg because the Wayland Implementation in Zorin 17 isn't ready to handle Nvidia well. Depending which Gnome Version in Zorin 18 will be used that could change. But now on Zorin 17 Nvidia+Xorg is the better Combination.

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Nvidia driver 570.86.16 has alot of wayland fixes. I would try that first.

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Yes, but that works the best when You have an up-to-date Desktop with Explicit Sync Support. But of course he/she could try it.

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@anon96359095 @Ponce-De-Leon
I'm having graphical issues on X-org on proprietary NVIDIA driver,
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What driver are you using ?

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Proprietary NVIDIA driver version 550:
NVIDIA GPU MX450 is using nvidia driver 550

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Try 565 or 570

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THere are none,

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Recheck after that.

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