Game 'Blinken' is not working on Ubuntu 22.04.2

Mahler

3/24/24, 6:45 PM

When I start 'Blinken' in terminal I receive the error message:

*******:~$ blinken
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
kf.dbusaddons: Couldn't register name 'org.kde.blinken-17440' with DBUS - another process owns it already!

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Any ideas how to solve it?

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Hi-Angel

3/24/24, 10:08 PM

By any chance was it installed through `snap`? Or as usual? Does it appear in `dpkg -l blinken`?

Mahler

3/25/24, 5:53 AM

It was installed from snap package.

Hi-Angel

3/25/24, 9:33 AM

I see. From *my experience*, `snap` packages have a record of being poorly constructed, because `snap` *(and `flatpak` for that matter, but the latter usually works better)* provides sandboxing, which is good on its own, however people who construct such packages don't always take into account all usecases, resulting in weird faults. So, try removing `blinken`, then installing it from `apt` and see if that helps. If that does, then please report a bug to the `snap` Blinken package to make sure maintainer is aware of the problem.

Mahler

3/25/24, 9:40 AM

Thanks. That works. I have reinstalled it from .deb package.

Hi-Angel

3/25/24, 9:42 AM

Nice! Will write that as an answer then in a minute.

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Hi-Angel

3/25/24, 9:52 AM

As was found in comments, the problem turns out to be a bug in snap version of Blinken.

So the solution is to remove Blinken, and then install it back but this time from the main Ubuntu repository (not from snap), for example as:

$ sudo apt install blinken

Also, please report a bug to the maintainer of snap-version of the Blinken package.

N.B: from my experience, snap packages have a record of being poorly constructed, because snap (and flatpak for that matter, but the latter usually works better) provides sandboxing, which is good on its own, however people who assemble such packages don't always take into account all usecases, resulting in weird faults. For example, docker on snap has this unresolved problem. Bear that in mind if you encounter similar problems in the future.

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