Trouble with apps that open URLs

local.interloper · October 7, 2024, 11:41pm

Hi, so, I’m having trouble with some apps that open URLs. I’m running Cinnamon and I’ve enabled flatpak in order to install install the zen browser (a pretty modified firefox fork). When clicking on links inside discord and whatnot it opens the URLs in the browser just fine. However when trying to log in into Spotify or Postman it just doesn’t respond (literally nothing happens). If I set Firefox as a preferred browser everything works just fine. My best bet was blaming the fact that zen runs as a flatpak.

My findings so far

xdg-open https://example.com/ seems to work fine which makes me feel like this is not an xdg portal issue. Additionally, I’ve noticed this coming out of Spotify’s stdout. It happens the moment the login button is pressed.

/run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/5pxxxsmdcpzjlvpjl76sfc3j4nncaydf-curl-8.9.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak)
/run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/5pxxxsmdcpzjlvpjl76sfc3j4nncaydf-curl-8.9.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /nix/store/lrgxla7b3pspx47fb6868di7p2lpszl0-appstream-1.0.3/lib/libappstream.so.5)
/run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/5pxxxsmdcpzjlvpjl76sfc3j4nncaydf-curl-8.9.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /nix/store/nwpv7s0rzldrrw9qjdm6zvihy21zlhb0-ostree-2024.4/lib/libostree-1.so.1)

Any help would be appreciated

pablovsky · November 28, 2024, 3:29pm

I’m also encountering this issue with Spotify log in.

pablovsky · November 28, 2024, 8:27pm

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Flatpak NixOS service makes some apps fail to open URLs

opened 08:26PM - 28 Nov 24 UTC

Pablo1107

0.kind: bug

## Describe the bug When the NixOS service flatpak is enabled, some apps like… Spotify (and reported by others Postman) fails to open URLs with the following error message: ``` /run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/apps3xgzjr5czjsvqv1llch501w7fxf9-curl-8.10.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak) /run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/apps3xgzjr5czjsvqv1llch501w7fxf9-curl-8.10.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /nix/store/q4mpgrfcr7a8i2n2cyzimmlkx5z50jj7-appstream-1.0.3/lib/libappstream.so.5) /run/current-system/sw/bin/flatpak: /nix/store/apps3xgzjr5czjsvqv1llch501w7fxf9-curl-8.10.1/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /nix/store/hl9hzprbsxdw07llrr78mdanck2ksana-ostree-2024.8/lib/libostree-1.so.1) ``` ## Steps To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Set `service.flatpak.enable = true` 2. Probably have a dbus session running, I use `dbus-session-run sway` for my desktop. (Optional) 3. Run spotify without a login. 4. Press the Log In button. ## Expected behavior Open the browser with the URL for logging into Spotify. ## Screenshots ## Additional context In my testing, just adding flatpak in `environment.systemPackages` makes the same behaviour. Seems like this occurs in apps that don't use `xdg-open` to open URLs, because using `xdg-open` doesn't have those issues and even if I disable flatpak, these apps open the URL with Chromium instead of my default browser which is Zen. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/trouble-with-apps-that-open-urls/54069 ## Metadata ``` - system: `"x86_64-linux"` - host os: `Linux 6.6.60, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241110.aebe249` - multi-user?: `yes` - sandbox: `yes` - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.24.10` - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/bbdy3rh57z41in83s2g0vl8gp7y603ia-source` ``` ## Notify maintainers  @bobby285271 @io12 Seems the flatpak package maintainers list is empty, so I'll notify you as you have commited to the flatpak module, sorry in advance if you don't want to involve. --- Note for maintainers: Please tag this issue in your PR. --- Add a :+1: [reaction] to [issues you find important]. [reaction]: https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ [issues you find important]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc

I created an issue for this in Nixpkgs.

emberal · January 1, 2025, 7:53pm

I have the same issue, also using Zen as a flatpak.
I was able to make it work by running dbus-monitor while clicking the link, and opening the auth link from my terminal.
Not a proper solution, but atleast I was able to login