Ytmdesktop: Bug: Snap is unable to chown the config

[AndrewBarber]

Hi there,

Launching youtube-music-desktop-app on Ubuntu 19.04 is causing the following error:

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, chown '/home/andrew/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/.config/youtube-music-desktop-app/config.json.515862474'
    at Object.chownSync (fs.js:1104:3)
    at Function.writeFileSync [as sync] (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/node_modules/write-file-atomic/index.js:198:27)
    at ElectronStore.set store [as store] (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/index.js:267:19)
    at ElectronStore.set (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/index.js:152:14)
    at set (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/providers/settingsProvider.js:18:9)
    at Object.setInitialValue (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/providers/settingsProvider.js:28:5)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/snap/youtube-music-desktop-app/1/resources/app.asar/utils/defaultSettings.js:4:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:880:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:892:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:735:32)

I think this is likely due to permissions that snaps have? However, I'm unsure how to remedy this!

[adlerluiz]

@rickinbsb can you help?

[rickinbsb]

sure! I'll try to reproduce this

[AndrewBarber]

I've done some digging on this one.

So it seems that the issue lies within write-file-atomic which is used by electron-store.

[pallebone]

Hi I am also affected by this bug. Running Ubuntu Mate 20.04

[rickinbsb]

Thanks for the research @AndrewBarber