Issues on fresh install of bazzite-deck-gnome
To begin, I don't have a lot of experience with Fedora as a distro in general, so I'm not sure how many of my issues are just typical PEBKAC stuff or actual issues.
Regardless, after doing a fresh install of
bazzite-deck-gnome using the bazzite v1.3.0 ISO on my Steam Deck, I've been having quite a few issues that impact the usability of the desktop mode that started pretty much immediately after installing bazzite.
First, the bazzite setup wizard seemed to be unable to actually get superuser privileges. I set up a user account without a password, and it prompted me three times to authenticate and then failed to actually apply seemingly any of the options I had specified due to lack of permissions. For example, despite selecting the "Hide GRUB menu" option, I am still presented with a GRUB menu every boot, and it fails to install Decky with Error executing command as another user: Not authorized. This incident has been reported.. It also doesn't install any of the flatpaks I specify either, saying Unable to load summary from remote flathub: GPG: gpgme_ctx_set_engine_info: GPGME: Invalid crypto engine for each flatpak.
Additionally, once I boot into bazzite, many applications like the terminal or gnome settings just flat out don't launch, saying it Failed to open file to remap file descriptor (No such file or directory).
I'm kind of at a loss here, as I've tried reformatting both the deck and the USB drive I used multiple times. I used the Fedora Media Writer on Steam OS to write the bazzite 1.3.0 ISO to the USB drive. I'll try to upload some pictures I took during the whole process, but any help would be appreciated.31 Replies
I set up a user account without a passwordyou'll want to fix that
I tried it initially with a password, and it prompted me for my password 3 times as well, so I (incorrectly) assumed I was just typing it in wrong.
that's normal behavior, you'll get prompted for each root-required option you select in the portal
The inability to launch stuff is not, that error means the file you're attempting to execute does not exist
what did you run to produce that?
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized. This incident has been reported. this means you typo'd your password
decky needs root to install
Unable to load summary from remote flathub: GPG: gpgme_ctx_set_engine_info: GPGME: Invalid crypto engine
connection error to flathubDoes creating a user account without a password disallow root access?
This was on first boot, I was just going through the setup wizard. I kept all of the default options except for installing Decky.
Some of the default options require root
And this I mean
Additionally, once I boot into bazzite, many applications like the terminal or gnome settings just flat out don't launch, saying it Failed to open file to remap file descriptor (No such file or directory).
Bazzite Portal doesn't run terminal or gnome settings
how did you even see an error if you couldn't open the terminal?
very confusedI assume they mean they themselves tried to open it and it didn't work?
The errors were from the Show Console button on the Setting up Bazzite page. The error opening terminal was when I tried opening the terminal once the install was done after seeing those errors.
This is what I meant
that's a fun one, looks like the installer for decky loader failed to get your username
based on it ending like this
That looks a bit scary lol
that it does, will have to take it up with them
not our installer
that being said it should have gotten a username
not even sure where to begin debugging this, never seen anything like it
Yeah, kind of wishing I copied these logs instead of just taking a picture, but my dumb brain didn't think of that in the moment unfortunately.
Also I just realized that my GRUB menu on boot has 4 entries. Is that normal?
Yeah, Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue duplicates the 2 GRUB entries for some reason
It doesn't effect anything
Just means there's 4 for some reason
yes, in the sense that it's a long standing bug that it dupes ostree 0 and 1
I fixed it once, but after a few reinstalls, I forgot how I did it
Okay, so I rebooted again, and fortunately it seems like the terminal is able to run. No idea what changed but I'll take it. Also, running the Bazzite Portal option re-opens the Welcome to Bazzite window that I saw on the first boot. Should I run through that again or leave it be?
You can do it again if you want to change anything, it will always show the welcome screen, that's just what bazzite portal does.
Oh lol. I'll see if it works this time then.
Okay, I'm guessing it was the magic of turning it off and back on again, but everything seems to be working as expected now. Bazzite portal was able to install everything I wanted as I expected (except Decky, but that's because
rm: cannot remove '/': is a directory put the fear of God in me and I opted not to give it another go). Games still seem to be running as I'd expect, and all of my flatpaks are working as I'd expect. Thanks for all the help everyone!
(also I made sure to give my user account an actual password with passwd now that everything seems to be in order)I am in the same boat only on 3th reinstall I can not get it to work on my stramdeck constant permission errors
This is me typing just upd + tab, same with the tutorial installer that one been hanging with errors for about 30min while cooking
Just normal install user with password
This would be why 😦
Users environment doesn't carry over since pkexec just directly elevates to the root user. I will revert pkexec and bring back askpass
Just rebooted and now i can start file manager and stuff still going trough the setup non stop errors
I wonder what causes this, flathub stuff should have been resolved
I had bazzite running perfect for over a month only reason of this reinstall was because I had problems with waydroid from like last month and did not want to bother with fixing it
But yeah in software center I can not install anything either
Well now another reboot and whole system broken. (This is a clean install). Can not start any apps anymore and reboot/shutdown also not working
Sorry for my spam but what I did was write iso to USB, install (just normal), boot run into problems during first run, reboot do the stramdeck first run boot to desktop try the first run thing again but errors again and now 3th reboot I can not do anything (3th install)
Installed a 4th time everything worked until I selected my options in step one of the installer and pressed next so whatever option I select one has to be breaking my system going for a reinstall again but will not change any options
Wrote a fix and PRd this morning but it looks like the same fix ended up in main. Should be resolved next time images successfully build