Bug 428860 - Latest commit of 2020-11-07 04:26:34 +0000 broken: GLib-CRITICAL error
Summary: Latest commit of 2020-11-07 04:26:34 +0000 broken: GLib-CRITICAL error
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Qt/KDE Flatpak Runtime
Classification: Developer tools
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aleix Pol
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Reported: 2020-11-08 20:51 UTC by Thiago Sueto
Modified: 2020-11-09 02:33 UTC (History)
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Description Thiago Sueto 2020-11-08 20:51:48 UTC 
To see the error, run: LANG=C flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.kde.Sdk//5.15

Latest commit is broken, registered as null, and presents the following output:

(flatpak remote-info:44935): GLib-CRITICAL **: 17:45:31.891: g_utf8_strlen: assertion 'p != NULL || max == 0' failed
    Commit: (null)
    Parent: d14d90b6199657420def9926183e441201b48c9bbd67cb5aafc7ae5af770607c
   Subject: build of org.kde.Sdk, Fri 06 Nov 2020 10:10:44 PM UTC (2271c6b0e6539334dfeccd7e1ca3f358eba44be4)
      Date: 2020-11-07 04:26:34 +0000
   History:

Flatpak allows to go back one commit, but only after the package/runtime is installed. Packagers attempting to use the 5.15 Sdk and who don't already have it installed cannot install it.

The error message provided when attempting to build with --install-deps-from=flathub renders:

Error: Failed to install org.kde.Sdk: While trying to checkout 2a0051353a074e659ef081e7a7929553ab74569f2358ae061c1514e07d523e1d into /home/blumen/.local/share/flatpak/runtime/org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15/.2a0051353a074e659ef081e7a7929553ab74569f2358ae061c1514e07d523e1d-S5FMT0: Opening content object aa3afdd282058a212b140369a8c2dc498660d95966c32ff69bdf8f2509e3eeef: Couldn't find file object 'aa3afdd282058a212b140369a8c2dc498660d95966c32ff69bdf8f2509e3eeef'
Error installing deps: running `flatpak --user install flathub -y --noninteractive org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15`: Child process exited with code 1
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2020-11-08 23:16:11 UTC 
Sounds to me like an issue in flatpak. There's nothing we can change in our code to address this.

And it is odd because I just upgraded and I didn't have any problems with it...
Comment 2 Thiago Sueto 2020-11-09 02:33:25 UTC 
(In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #1)
> Sounds to me like an issue in flatpak. There's nothing we can change in our
> code to address this.

Thanks for the feedback, it helped me figure out the issue. I tested this on another machine: it works there. Searching for a potential solution for a local issue, I found flatpak-repair, and their documentation explicitly mentions flatpak-repair is used to fix the flatpak installation whenever there are missing objects (in my case the commit information). A simple "flatpak repair --user" fixed things for me.

If I manage to reproduce this issue again, I'll change this to resolved upstream and provide a link to the upstream (flatpak) bug report.