The version of Epiphany packaged with Fedora 31 (3.34.1)/WebKitGTK is unable to load webpages. The URL bar will accept a URL but stall with the progress indicator showing ~10%. Nothing is rendered. No useful debug output in console other than bwrap: Can't create file at /.flatpak-info: Read-only file system The nightly version installed from flatpak at https://nightly.gnome.org/repo/appstream/org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel.flatpakref works without issues. Interestingly, keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-L also fail to work even when the window is focused, so I suspect this is a Wayland specific issue. I note that the same install works fine using a Wayland gnome-shell session, so seems Sway-specific. Happy to post a WAYLAND_DEBUG log if that's helpful.
(In reply to Ryan Walklin from comment #0) > bwrap: Can't create file at /.flatpak-info: Read-only file system
I've done a bit more experimenting. Opening Epiphany from the .desktop file in gnome-shell works fine under both Wayland and X sessions, however if I try to call epiphany from the command-line (as I'm doing with Sway using an fzf-based launcher) I can reproduce the same behaviour under gnome-shell, ie Epiphany launches but will not load pages. Attempting to use the .desktop file from the command line using gtk-launch with both Sway and gnome-shell also fails. I note the error message contains a root path (/.flatpak-info), might this be an issue with the runtime directory not set properly when loading from the command line?
(In reply to Ryan Walklin from comment #2) > I've done a bit more experimenting. Opening Epiphany from the .desktop file > in gnome-shell works fine under both Wayland and X sessions, however if I > try to call epiphany from the command-line (as I'm doing with Sway using an > fzf-based launcher) I can reproduce the same behaviour under gnome-shell, ie > Epiphany launches but will not load pages. > > Attempting to use the .desktop file from the command line using gtk-launch > with both Sway and gnome-shell also fails. > > I note the error message contains a root path (/.flatpak-info), might this > be an issue with the runtime directory not set properly when loading from > the command line? `bwrap` would be creating the file in its own new tmpfs root. I can't imagine why it would fail. Trying to reproduce locally on GNOME-Shell (Fedora 30) and I cannot. The source of `gtk-launch` is very simple also and doesn't seem to do anything crazy.
*** Bug 213925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If an empty path is set in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (e.g. /foo::/bar), we wind up passing --ro-bind-try --ro-bind-try to bwrap, where the second --ro-bind-try is treated as the source path to mount, and the next flag we pass gets treated as the destination path. The web process crashes with this confusing error: bwrap: Can't create file at /.flatpak-info: Read-only file system
Created attachment 403458 [details] Patch
Committed r263899: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/263899> All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug and clearing flags on attachment 403458 [details].
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #5) > If an empty path is set in LD_LIBRARY_PATH Ryan, can you confirm if this was indeed your problem? I was able to reproduce this issue when running with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=::
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #8) > Ryan, can you confirm if this was indeed your problem? So it was, unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH allowed epiphany to load fine from the Fedora package. My .bashrc was setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH", so ended up with an empty path at the end. Thanks for the fix!
Wow! Thanks for tracking it down, Michael. I also had a trailing colon in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and was hitting this same bug.