Flatpak history does not work

[clintre]

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Summary

When trying to use flatpak history it returns nothing.

Tested this on several Solus systems, both stable and unstable all failing to return the expected data.

I also loaded up a few distros in a VM, like Fedora, Mint, and EndeavourOS with Flatpak and all returned the expected results.

This is useful in a similar way as eopkg history for tracking issues.

Steps to reproduce

1. Make sure you have at least one flatpak installed.
2. Run flatpak history in the terminal.

Expected result

Actual result

Environment

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Repo

Polaris (stable)

Desktop Environment

Plasma

System details

System:
  Host: Ozzmosis Kernel: 6.17.8-324.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.3 Distro: Solus 4.8 opportunity
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Micro (HK) Tech product: MotherBoard Series v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Shenzhen Meigao Equipment model: DRFXL v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.12
    date: 02/13/2025
CPU:
  Info: 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 5309 min/max: 428/5463
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 5120x1440~120Hz
    2: 1920x1200~60Hz 3: 1920x1200~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.6 renderer: AMD
    Radeon Graphics (radeonsi gfx1200 ACO DRM 3.64 6.17.8-324.current)
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: lact wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 356.52 GiB (18.7%)
Info:
  Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.49 GiB used: 16.6 GiB (26.6%)
  Processes: 619 Uptime: 1h 2m Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.39

Other comments

The current version of Flatpak is 1.16.0 on Solus versus the latest 1.16.1 which distros like Fedora are in the examples above. I do not believe that is the reason, but wanted to mention it. While 1.16.1 has a lot of bugfixes, I do not see anything about history in the release notes for it.

[joebonrichie]

it should work with sudo, it appears to be an issue with permissions on /var/log/journal/

[clintre]

Yep, confirned, works with sudo.

[joebonrichie]

This is the issue

journalctl --system --no-pager
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in groups 'adm', 'avahi-autoipd', 'systemd-journal', 'wheel' can see all messages.
      Pass -q to turn off this notice.
No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
[ble: exit 1]

We wish to transition the default admin group to wheel from sudo per #299, also blocked on #4035