[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#885976: flatpak: fails to run on symlinked path locations

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: flatpak
Version: 0.10.2.1-1
Severity: important


Dear Maintainer,

It seems flatpak has very fragile path assumptions. I have a basic setup
with 2 HDDs, where in I have my /var/tmp/ as a symlink pointing to a
secondary location. This shouldn't be tagged an unusual setup.

But flatpak fails to run....

rrs at priyasi:~$ flatpak run com.skype.Client
bwrap: Can't make symlink at /var/tmp: File exists
10:47 ♒♒♒    ☹  => 1  
rrs at priyasi:~$ file /var/tmp
/var/tmp: symbolic link to /media/SSHD/var/tmp/
10:47 ♒♒♒   ☺    



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages flatpak depends on:
ii  bubblewrap             0.2.0-3
ii  fuse                   2.9.7-1
ii  libappstream-glib8     0.7.4-1
ii  libarchive13           3.2.2-3.1
ii  libc6                  2.25-6
ii  libfuse2               2.9.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.54.2-5
ii  libgpgme11             1.10.0-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0     1.4.2-3
ii  libostree-1-1          2017.14-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-18
ii  libseccomp2            2.3.1-2.1
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.60.2-2
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii  libxml2                2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2

Versions of packages flatpak recommends:
ii  desktop-file-utils                                   0.23-2
ii  gtk-update-icon-cache                                3.22.26-2
ii  hicolor-icon-theme                                   0.17-1
ii  libpam-systemd                                       236-1
ii  shared-mime-info                                     1.9-2
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk [xdg-desktop-portal-backend]  0.9-1

flatpak suggests no packages.

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