Bug 387917

Summary:	installation of flatpaks on a live system does not work
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Peter Eszlari <peter.eszlari>
Component:	Flatpak Backend	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	jgrulich, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.11.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Peter Eszlari 2017-12-15 00:53:38 UTC

When I try to install a flatpak via a flatpakref file from flathub on a live system e.g. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/, I get the following error:

"fsetxattr(user.ostreemeta): Operation not supported"

This also happens when I try it on the command line. Only when I add the --user option, installing works.

So should discover fall back to this mode or just inform the user that installation on a live system is not supported?

Maybe this is too much of an edge case, but it could also be useful for testing.

Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2018-01-29 16:19:26 UTC

This is an issue in either flatpak or the distribution.
Please report there: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/