Universal Blue•2w ago

Lutris has issues installing to secondary drive.

System information: Processor: AMD 9800x3d GPU: MSI 4090 Surpim Hydro Motherboard: Gigabyte X670E AORUS MASTER Ram: 96GB Corsair Dominator DDR5 Release: bazzite-nvidia-open-stable Summary: I have two drives, both nvme. I've modified my /etc/fstab to automount the secondary drive at system boot. It is formated btrfs and mounts with defaults with no backup and no fsck order. (defaults 0 0) I've tried installing games like Escape from Tarkov, Genshin Impact, and more to the secondary drive using Lutris. Lutris installs NORMALLY error out with a generic "Installation failed" error unless I let it install to my home directory. I tried setting world RWX on the mount point for that drive and confirmed my user has full permission in the directory to read write and execute. My normal solution to this would be to select lutris in flatseal and grant permission for the flatpak but flatseal doesn't see Lutris at all.

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wolfyreload•2w ago

Lutris is layered so you won't find it in flatseal. It's weird that your user has permissions to write to the drive and Lutris does not could we have a look at your fstab file in here?

Black MagixOP•2w ago

 UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /                       btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=f6a6b1f5-5e23-45c4-a448-755ec1fe3e9a /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=C4C7-B6A4          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /home                   btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /var                    btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=baefc49e-720d-4937-a8c6-bc8a446c2cb7 /run/media/blackmagix/Games/ btrfs defaults 0 0

 UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /                       btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=f6a6b1f5-5e23-45c4-a448-755ec1fe3e9a /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=C4C7-B6A4          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /home                   btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=7fcd2756-e6cc-4284-975e-084f5c1158b5 /var                    btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2 0 0
UUID=baefc49e-720d-4937-a8c6-bc8a446c2cb7 /run/media/blackmagix/Games/ btrfs defaults 0 0

and to confirm permissions

Black MagixOP•2w ago

Black MagixOP•2w ago

any ideas?

asen23•2w ago

use the option from docs

Black MagixOP•2w ago

can you clarify that?

asen23•2w ago

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/KDE_Partition_Manager_Auto_Mount_Guide/#btrfs if you want to use your own option the important one is exec

KDE Partition Manager Auto Mount Guide - Bazzite Documentation

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Black MagixOP•6d ago

No change. Every installer is erroring out

  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/util/jobs.py", line 30, in target
    result = self.function(*a, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/installer/interpreter.py", line 322, in dispatch
    prev_cwd = os.getcwd()

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/util/jobs.py", line 30, in target
    result = self.function(*a, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/installer/interpreter.py", line 322, in dispatch
    prev_cwd = os.getcwd()

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

If I leave it to install in my home directory it works perfectly. The install location is /run/media/blackmagix/Games/ (as seen in the fstab above)

Eternal_Hunter•6d ago

Hmm, you could try changing the fstab mounting to the usual /mnt/createdirname instead. You'll need to sudo mkdir that mountpoint, but that's it.

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