Flatpak applications open blank window

Axios

I run flapak update from terminal always today it asked me dont remb what that I should
update something to current wish I could remb what.

But now some my flatpaks wont run they launch with just dark screen.
I think it had something do with barrier because remb seeing that
Just ran update on laptop no issues (no barrier)

How can I reset things? (Plasma)
Reinstall of programs does not work

brent

Axios I updated this morning and it was about 6 freedesktop updates. I always update everything they recommend. That's my 2 cents on that.

As for the apps that launch black I don't know. This has happened to me once or twice with flatpak but never with a few. Wonder if you need to do the update?

Solarmass

no problem here with flatpak 🤷

try maybe flatpak uninstall --unused

Axios

Wasnt anything to remove what ever happen has made my system unstable.

brent

no clues in the terminal output?

Axios

Well prob have do a system reinstall I am not happy about took 2 -4 days learning setting up plasma
I dont see anyway around it
Going delete whole flatpak dir in home see what happens.

Solarmass

maybe it's nvidia driver? What driver version is installed on your system?

Axios

Solarmass its intel video
3 flatpaks went haywire warehouse,flatseal,flatsweep
Rest seem be ok

Dont really want uninstall flatpak cause of what it wants to uninstall

I shoulda stopped was just about ready to image system to avoid this.

brent

https://gitlab.com/cscs/maclean

^^ tool I use monthly to clean every trace of flatpak apps and selected caches

Axios

brent If you dont know what something is always answer NO!
I mean to what I did..lol

brent

wayland?
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5996

Axios

brent Hmmm they work in x11.
Dunno how that became an issue

When I ran flatpak update it did like 6 updates fine then it said it reccomend I allow this
and update something (but i dont remb what it said) so i did it closed normal.

After that some flatpaks dont work.

interesting.
At this point I have no clue.
This is only thing i could find dunno if it would cause the issue

TraceyC

I'm renaming the topic, since this is not a crash.

Axios This is only thing i could find dunno if it would cause the issue

Without context for those log lines, we can't know if that relates to your flatpaks or not. Try running one of your flatpaks with

flatpak run -vv appname

but substitute the name for "appname". You can get this from the application in the list of installed flatpaks. For instance, for FreeTube:

flatpak list | grep FreeTube
FreeTube        io.freetubeapp.FreeTube 0.23.5 Beta     stable  flathub system

So the application name is io.freetubeapp.FreeTube and I would run

flatpak run -v io.freetubeapp.FreeTube

Run a flatpak that way and let us know the output.

Axios

TraceyC That file is a longggggggg listing.

This short version

TraceyC

Axios

Thanks for that screenshot. It seems from reading it that the AMD drivers related to the flatpak are not correct for it. Have you tried uninstalling the flatpaks that don't load right, then runing flatpak uninstall --unused and reinstalling the flatpak? That should reinstall the flatpak along with the driver and whatever else it needs.

Axios

TraceyC I removed the amd card from machine it was of no use to me.
Using intel HD graphics 4000 on display port. Dell optiplex 9010 desktop i7-3770

I pretty much tried alot of what ghtyuser tried in his post and your suggestion
with no luck.

At this point about the only thing I know for sure they work in X11 but not in Wayland.
This is a test machine (to get me familiar with wayland) so if something needs be tried let me know
wont be end of world.

1st I installed Plasma latest iso
2nd did all updates
3rd setting up programs ect (The last flatpak i installed was barrier)(my gut says it caused issue)
4th did flatpak update from terminal (which caused issue or brought something to lite)
This was all over a 3-4 day period.

Oh at this point only 2 flapaks installed
flatsweep - doesnt work
gedit-works fine

ghtyuser

Hello! I have the same problem.
Affected packages : warehouse, flatseal, authentificator
Broken apps just show white blank window.
Strange thing that it's running on the same runtime as Dbeaver - but Dbeaver works as usual.

What i have already done:
1) flatpak repair
2) flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.freedesktop.Sdk org.freedesktop.Platform
then flatpak repair then reinstalling SDK+Platform
3) flatpak uninstall --unused
4)And radical way
flatpak uninstall --all --delete-data -y
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak
sudo apt remove --purge flatpak
sudo apt --fix-broken install
Restarted the PC

Then did full reinstall of flatpak + adding flathub + installing apps- ZERO EFFECT

System: Debian 12
Kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64
DE: Plasma 5.27.5 (Wayland)
GPU: Intel HD Graphics

All apps broke after installing the latest updates for flatpak via Discover yesterday

TraceyC

ghtyuser System: Debian 12

I just noticed this. These forums are for Solus users. For issues on Debian, you'll want to take advantage of Debian support forums and resources.

ghtyuser

LOG data when starting one of broken apps (as an example Authentificator):
(process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:23:26.359: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
2025-06-12T09:23:26.392822Z INFO authenticator::application: Authenticator (com.belmoussaoui.Authenticator)
2025-06-12T09:23:26.392838Z INFO authenticator::application: Version: 4.6.2 ()
2025-06-12T09:23:26.392840Z INFO authenticator::application: Datadir: /app/share/authenticator
2025-06-12T09:23:26.396569Z DEBUG oo7::keyring: Application is sandboxed, using the file backend
2025-06-12T09:23:26.396577Z DEBUG oo7::file: Loading default keyring file
2025-06-12T09:23:26.398950Z INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Creating a org.freedesktop.portal.Request /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop/request/1_116/ashpd_nF2aDkk4Zh
2025-06-12T09:23:26.401867Z INFO ashpd::desktop::request: Received signal 'Response' on 'org.freedesktop.portal.Request'
2025-06-12T09:23:26.401890Z DEBUG ashpd::desktop::request: Received response Ok(
(),
)
2025-06-12T09:23:26.401964Z DEBUG oo7::file: Trying to load keyring file at "/home/adam/.var/app/com.belmoussaoui.Authenticator/data/keyrings/default.keyring"
2025-06-12T09:23:26.402102Z DEBUG oo7::file: Keyring file found, loading it content
2025-06-12T09:23:26.528275Z INFO authenticator::models::providers: Loading providers
2025-06-12T09:23:26.529243Z INFO authenticator::models::database: Running DB Migrations...
2025-06-12T09:23:26.529446Z INFO authenticator::models::database: Database pool initialized.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan_hasvk/anv_formats.c:759: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan_hasvk/anv_formats.c:790: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers

Axios

This i a workaround only!
Can login to Plasma X11 and use flatseal to disable wayland for the effected program then Reboot to wayland
and the program will work in wayland session.

Shrugs.

OK I did same thing as above but turned wayland back on and turned off Gpu acceleration
and now they work in wayland session.

But Have no idea whats going on at least for now I can deal with them from wayland