[SOLVED] Latest Update to Package bubblewrap prevents some Flatpak apps from launching

[life0riley]

Latest Update to Package bubblewrap prevents some Flatpak apps from launching

I updated my system today in the terminal

sudo apt update

followed by

sudo apt full-upgrade

After the update I apptempted to launch Thunderbird Flatpak from the terminal to see if there is any output:

$ flatpak run org.mozilla.thunderbird
bwrap: Can't resolve /var/run/cups/cups.sock: Too many levels of symbolic links

I found this in my online search:
Flatpaks not launching: bwrap: Can't resolve /var/run/cups/cups.sock: Too many levels of symbolic links
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1569...ock-too-many-l

I see that bubblewrap was updated with my updates today:
Preparing to unpack …/05-bubblewrap_0.11.1-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb…
Unpacking bubblewrap (0.11.1-1ubuntu0.2) over (0.11.1-1ubuntu0.1)…

I followed the suggestion from ask Ubuntu and downgraded bubblewrap

sudo apt install bubblewrap=0.11.1-1ubuntu0.1

This downgraded bubblewrap from 0.11.1-1ubuntu0.2 to 0.11.1-1ubuntu0.1

Afterward I was able to successfully launch Thunderbird.

I have another Flatpak app, GnuCash, but it was not affected by the bubblewrap update.

I found this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...p/+bug/2167621

[roadrunner58]

Thanks for your file downgrade fix. After the update this afternoon I had the same problem with Firefox from Flatpak. My other computer would not open Firefox and Kate. After The Bubblewrap downgrade on both computers Kate and Firefox was opening again.

[jrwatts]

bubblewrap0.11.1-1ubuntu0.3 has been released to fix this issue (per the bug report linked above).

[kensiko]

I scratched my head a lot regarding this !

I'm on Linux since this summer. Is this type of update breaking OS happening often ? We don't have a quick "Uninstall update" feature on Linux.

[jrwatts]

First of all, it wasn't an "OS breaking update"; it broke only some flatpaks, not everything! But similarly faulty updates are quite rare in my experience (I've been using Ubuntu/Kubuntu for about 6 years now); maybe one every couple of years. And you can see that it was fixed very quickly, the same day the faulty update was released (personally, the fixed release was already available before I even checked for updates on my system; I went straight from version ubuntu0.1 to ubuntu0.3).

[life0riley]

I just confirmed I received the last update to bubblewrap:

$ apt-cache policy bubblewrap
bubblewrap:
Installed: 0.11.1-1ubuntu0.3
Candidate: 0.11.1-1ubuntu0.3
Version table:
*** 0.11.1-1ubuntu0.3 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.11.1-1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/main amd64 Packages
$

All my installed Flatpak applications open correctly.

I'm marking this solved.