Insomnia: [Bug] Insomnia fails to start on Fedora 29

[theomessin]

• Insomnia Version: 6.3.2
• Operating System: Fedora 29 (4.20.3-200.fc29.x86_64)

Details

Insomnia completely fails to start. Tried reinstalling, updating OS, etc. Can't really help with reproducing this. Hoping to get some pointers on how to go about fixing this though. Running insomnia & will start a process which will instantly exit:

% insomnia &                                                                  ~
[1] 8807
%                                                                             ~
[1]  + 8807 exit 1     insomnia

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[gschier]

Any errors if you run it in the foreground? Does Insomnia show anything?

Did you use the Snap image or the AppImage package?

[theomessin]

No visible errors when running in the foreground, doesn't start at all. I'm using the Snap image.
Edit: didn't know you had an AppImage, tried it and it works fine.

[theomessin]

Closing this cause it's hogging my dashboard. Still don't know why the Snap didn't work. Just use the AppImage.

[dnut]

I am experiencing the same problem with the snap image. I don't understand why this issue was closed. What does your dashboard have to do with this being a problem?

[LudoPL]

Same problem here with fedora 29.

[BLRocha]

I solved the problem in fedora 29 by downloading the rpm and installing with dnf
link Releases Files

[gschier]

I'm glad to hear the RPM worked! I've updated the build system to publish an RPM package to GitHub releases for all future updates. Closing this one for now

[ThHareau]

I had a similar issue with slack on fedora (which is also using electron). I don't know if it's related.

Anyway, the rpm worked for me also

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/129141/slack-not-running-on-fedora-29/

[kaitlynbrown]

A link to the rpm on the download page would be nice too btw (since the snap doesn't seem to work at all)
Also, a minor annoyance: the rpm version doesn't seem to have an app icon

[mbn18]

Same problem.
I also fixed that by installing the RPM

• Insomnia Version: 16-2.39 Rev: 6964
• Operating System: Fedora 29 (updated regularly)

Details

Was installed using snap: https://snapcraft.io/insomnia

Can no longer start it:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: cannot use setting "default-url-scheme-handler": not allowed
[fix] Running database repairs
[db] Initialized DB at /home/miki/snap/insomnia/30/.config/Insomnia/insomnia.$TYPE.db
Init responses DB
[localstorage] Initialized at /home/miki/snap/insomnia/30/.config/Insomnia/localStorage
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

[shivdhar]

A link to the rpm on the download page would be nice too btw (since the snap doesn't seem to work at all)

+1 for a clear RPM link and "Install instructions for Fedora/CentOS" on the downloads page.

I only found out that an RPM -- my first installation preference -- existed through this issue. Snaps are always a pain to work with.

[FaisalFehad]

Couldn't even install the RPM version as I'm getting 'Bad PGP signature' when trying to install it on Fedora with Discover.

Update: Apparently this is caused by a. bug with dnf package manager. doing
$ sudo dnf filename
seems to do the installation just fine.

[mariusa]

@theomessin +1 for a clear RPM link and "Install instructions for Fedora/CentOS" on the downloads page, please

[Mdsp9070]

I'm using the snap package and having the same issue. I'm on Manjaro gnome

Using the AppImage for now, but there's a way to recover my data once I can't even open the app? I didn't backed up some of my data.

[Felipe00]

Manjaro 29 too, I faced this issue few days ago. I tried to open in a virtual machine and got same error:

Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: cannot use setting "default-url-scheme-handler": not allowed
[fix] Running database repairs
[db] Initialized DB at /home/lacroiix/snap/insomnia/62/.config/Insomnia/insomnia.$TYPE.db
Init responses DB
[localstorage] Initialized at /home/lacroiix/snap/insomnia/62/.config/Insomnia/localStorage
Trace/breakpoint trap (imagem do núcleo gravada)

Can someone to enlighten us?

[tebruno99]

Same issue for me. I found a reference to Electron apps not working because the dbus error:

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7129
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/issues/175

I haven't seen a clear solution that would make it work.

snap --version
snap     2.45.2-1
snapd    2.45.2-1
series   16

[kaitlynbrown]

@theomessin please re-open this issue so that it can be addressed