Mailspring: Bug: Mailspring not starting on Ubuntu 20.10

[andreadistefano]

Describe the bug
Mailspring is not starting after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10

To Reproduce
Run Mailspring from the Applications menu or from terminal.

Expected behavior
Mailspring should open.

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Setup: (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu
• OS Version: 20.10
• Mailspring Version: 1.7.8

Additional context

Running from terminal, this is what happens:

andrea@andrea-N240JU:~$ /snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch  
mv: cannot stat '/.config/user-dirs.dirs': Permission denied  
mv: cannot stat '/.config/user-dirs.locale': Permission denied  
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 270: /.config/user-dirs.dirs: Permission denied  
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 271: /.config/user-dirs.dirs.md5sum: Permission denied  
cp: cannot stat '/.config/user-dirs.locale': Permission denied
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 276: /.config/user-dirs.locale.md5sum: Permission denied
Can't save user-dirs.dirs
realpath: '': No such file or directory
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rm: cannot remove '/.local/share/themes': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 410: /.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.local/share/themes': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.themes': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.config/dconf': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove '/.local/share/icons': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.config': Permission denied
ln: failed to access '/.config/ibus': Permission denied
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 557: /flavor-select: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/.cache/immodules/immodules.cache': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove '/.cache/immodules/*.so': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/.cache/immodules/*.so': File exists
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 583: /.cache/immodules/immodules.cache: Permission denied
/snap/mailspring/488/bin/desktop-launch: line 591: /.last_revision: Permission denied

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[andreadistefano]

Installing the .deb package fails

andrea@andrea-N240JU:~$ sudo dpkg -i Downloads/mailspring-1.7.8-amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package mailspring.
(Reading database ... 548673 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mailspring-1.7.8-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mailspring (1.7.8) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailspring:
 mailspring depends on gvfs-bin; however:
  Package gvfs-bin is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package mailspring (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mailspring

The problem is that gvfs-bin is not available in the Ubuntu 20.10 repositories.

[rengare]

you can install gvfs-bin from here http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gvfs/gvfs-bin_1.46.1-1_amd64.deb

[boaakerstrom]

Installed it. Still not working.

[aia832003]

Thanks @rengare was looking for that and never could find the right package last night. Fixed my issue on Pop_OS! on 20.10.

[WeiChihChern]

Thanks. The link above fixed the issue for me too. Using Pop OS 20.10 too

[andreadistefano]

you can install gvfs-bin from here http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gvfs/gvfs-bin_1.46.1-1_amd64.deb

Thanks, with this package I managed to install the .deb version of Mailspring and it now works as usual. Still no luck with the snap package but I don't really care.

[buzzzzlightyear]

you can install gvfs-bin from here http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gvfs/gvfs-bin_1.46.1-1_amd64.deb

Phew! Thank you. Fixed error on Pop!_OS 20.10

[MadRabbit]

any chance the snap could be updated with a patch?

[alexandradeas]

This same error appeared to me only after upgrading gnome to v3.38.1

[AndreaLibe]

Thank you. Error fixed for Mailspring (and other softwares) on Pop!_OS 20.10