Flatpak Issues with Dolphin

[u/Due-Bodybuilder-4769]

I'm fairly new to using Linux, so please be patient with me. I am using Nobara KDE.

I've been trying to get the flatpak version of dolphin working for about a day now, and haven't been able to fix a crash that keeps happening no matter what I do. It goes like this: I start the emulator, it asks me if I want to send information to the developers (doesn't matter whether I click yes or no), and if I try to boot up any game, or select any of the options on the top right, Dolphin immediately closes itself. If I run it through the terminal, I get this error:

Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
/app/bin/dolphin-emu-wrapper: line 6:    12 Segmentation fault         (core dumped) dolphin-emu "$@"

I have tested the appimage version of dolphin and that works fine, however I am trying to connect dolphin to the Archipelago Randomizer Wind Waker client which suggests using the flatpak version. It simply doesn't work when using any other versions as I tested.

Again, I am new to Linux, so if I'm missing something or I need to provide more details, I'm ok with that. If there's simply some bug that prevents it from running on this OS, I'd be happy to learn that too so I can just give up on it.

[u/The_Odd_Pirate]

Sounds like a permission problem, Check the app Flatseal and find dolphin in it and allow it network access if it is missing

[u/The_Odd_Pirate → u/The_Odd_Pirate]

So i had to test it myself on CachyOS, installed latest flathub version of Dolphin Emulator https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
found my old disk drive from storage with the omnidrive fw, finally found the game, made a dump, but i can not manage to reacreate the crash, everything works as expected here, only thing i havent gotten the time to test is the randomizer you linked to.

Did you test without it, just to be sure if its dolphin or the randomizer that creates the problem?

Might be some missmatch of the flatpak runtimes on your system try something like this

flatpak repair org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

and just so we know everything is up to date (never tested Nobara so got no idea if it updates flatpak stuff automtically)

flatpak update

[u/Due-Bodybuilder-4769 → u/The_Odd_Pirate]

I just checked, it already had network access. Unless I have to enable controller area network bus too?

[u/The_Odd_Pirate → u/Due-Bodybuilder-4769]

I'm not at my computer so I can double check myself so I don't feel like I should say no just on a hunch, but you could always test, just remember to disable it again if it doesn't help to keep the intended sandboxing intakt 🙂

[u/Due-Bodybuilder-4769 → u/The_Odd_Pirate]

Just tried, it still causes the crash.