Flatpak error: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service file

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Hi there, just started to get this error when I try to run flatpaks, after a recent upgrade:

$ flatpak run com.discordapp.Discord
error: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

Similar error when I try to install one:

$ flatpak install org.signal.Signal
[... snip]
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
error: Failed to install org.signal.Signal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

My configuration is here:

Though confirmed this also reproduces on my other devices with latest switch --upgrade (portable.nix, etc).

I do have:

  services.flatpak.enable = true;
  services.accounts-daemon.enable = true;
  xdg.portal.enable = true;
  xdg.portal.extraPortals = [ pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-gtk ];
  hardware.opengl.driSupport32Bit = true;
  hardware.pulseaudio.support32Bit = true;

One tricky bit about my setup is I’m not using a desktop manager, just have a bespoke startx setup: https://github.com/shazow/nixfiles/blob/a2d8610f489b319c0e0dd5be0f4647879ef7d614/home/common/x11.nix#L19 – could be some permutation of dbus environment is not setup properly, but everything else seems to work like before.

I haven’t seen this error mentioned anywhere yet, so mostly wanted to share it in case anyone else has run into it already. Will keep investigating.

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I was able to trace it to the breaking generation on my desktop and diff it, in case it’s helpful: NixOS flatpak breaking generation diff · GitHub

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looks like the diff isn’t super helpful, largely just shows it adds and removes the same version

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I suspect it’s related to this recent PR that did some major related version bumps: flatpak: 1.4.2 → 1.6.1 by jtojnar · Pull Request #79416 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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I am unable to reproduce it.

Flatpak just uses AccountsService via D-Bus which should be enabled by services.accounts-daemon.enable = true;.

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Thanks for the hint, I did add services.accounts-daemon.enable = true; but it didn’t do the trick alas: https://github.com/shazow/nixfiles/blob/d53793b6c88ef5cd929128f16949bd313241a4c1/common/desktop.nix#L81

Hmm. @jtojnar What desktop manager configuration are you using? (Is the config you attempted to reproduce with up on Github?)

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I talked to two users on IRC who could reproduce the issue:

But at a glance, does it make sense this prevents things from running?
Like, from reading the code you’ve linked it doesn’t need AccountsService exclusively

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How funny that the same question happens again #nixos on 2020-02-25 — irc logs.

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I suspect in my case it could be related to the way I launch the dbus session with the X11 process, will play around with it more this weekend.

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There’s some issues with flatpak and the p11-kit on unstable/20.03 (apps are unable to connect to the internet etc), though your issue sounds a bit different. A p11-kit update is on its way to master: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub

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I did run into the connectivity issue as well, in a separate generation which didn’t include flatpak 1.6.x, but I rolled that back too for now. :slight_smile:

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There was this also flatpak: use correct p11-kit output by worldofpeace · Pull Request #80453 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub, but I’ve backported that.
p11-kit: 0.23.19 -> 0.23.20 by hedning · Pull Request #80698 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub looks like a bugfix, I will purpose a backport.

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Is there a github issue for this? I also have this problem.

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I’ve opened one on github Flatpaks can't be run/installed without org.freedesktop.Accounts interface · Issue #81284 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Thanks for opening the issue, @worldofpeace!

@piotr-szegda Can you confirm whether services.accounts-daemon.enable = true; works for you?

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@shazow: Yes and I don’t see any side effect.

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services.accounts-daemon.enable = true; fixed the original org.freedesktop.Accounts error for me, but I now get an error from the Spotify Flatpak that mentions session, so I think it’s related to dbus. I tried flipping that permission, but it didn’t fix the error. I was also getting connection errors with Discord, which led me to the Manjaro forum, which led me to this issue with p11-kit. Maybe the Spotify issue is the same; it just might report it differently.

Until p11-kit is upgraded to 0.23.20 in nixpkgs, Discord and presumably other Flatpaks will not work, just to put it on the radar. Hope that gets fixed. Thanks!

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The issue states we already have p11-kit update on it’s way to 20.03. It’s just in a staging branch.

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Oof, my bad. I started composing the message before actually finding the p11-kit issue, and then I guess I just finished it without ever reading the thread. Thanks!

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Quick update: Looks like it’s all good now as long as services.accounts-daemon is enabled. Except for the recent Flatpak SSL cert issues.