Telegram on Flatpak unexpectedly closes after a short time

[R4rum]

Steps to reproduce

1. Run Telegram
2. Wait a bit
3. Telegram crashes

Expected behaviour

Telegram doesn't crash

Actual behaviour

$ flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=telegram-desktop --file-forwarding org.telegram.desktop --
Gtk-Message: 19:29:03.255: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
error: : cannot open
error: : cannot open
error: : cannot open
code 137

I did not notice substantial increase in memory usage.

I do believe it complained something about OpenGL not being available or something, but I pressed the option for it to not bother me about it.

There was a little bit of effort trying to get to debug this, but:
$ flatpak install org.telegram.desktop.Debug org.freedesktop.Platform.Debug
Looking for matches…
error: Nothing matches org.freedesktop.Platform.Debug in remote flathub

$ flatpak run --command=sh --devel org.telegram.desktop
error: runtime/org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/21.08 not installed

Operating system

Arch Linux, Plasma

Version of Telegram Desktop

4.2.4

Installation source

Flatpak

Logs

[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Launched version: 4002004, install beta: [FALSE], alpha: 0, debug mode: [TRUE]
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Executable dir: /app/bin/, name: telegram-desktop
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Initial working dir: /home/mikko/
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Working dir: /home/mikko/.var/app/org.telegram.desktop/data/TelegramDesktop/
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Command line: telegram-desktop -debug
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Executable path before check: /app/bin/telegram-desktop
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Logs started
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Launcher filename: org.telegram.desktop.desktop
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Connecting local socket to /run/user/1000/app/org.telegram.desktop/080f4b96843bc0b5c7ea12558529f6e1...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Socket connect error 0, starting server and app...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Moved logging from '/home/mikko/.var/app/org.telegram.desktop/data/TelegramDesktop/log_start0.txt' to '/home/mikko/.var/app/org.telegram.desktop/data/TelegramDesktop/log.txt'!
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Primary screen DPI: 96
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] System tray available: [TRUE]
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansRegular.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansRegular'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirRegular.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirRegular'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansRegularItalic.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansRegularItalic'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirRegular.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirRegular'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansSemiboldAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansSemibold'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirMediumAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirMedium'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansSemiboldItalicAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansSemiboldItalic'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirMediumAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirMedium'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansSemiboldAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansSemibold'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirMediumAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirMedium'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAOpenSansSemiboldItalicAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAOpenSansSemiboldItalic'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Font: from ':/gui/fonts/DAVazirMediumAsBold.ttf' loaded 'DAVazirMedium'
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Icon theme: Adwaita
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Fallback icon theme: 
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading settings...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted settings...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Lang Info: Loaded cached, keys: 4219
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] OpenAL Logging Level: 3
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Audio Playback Devices: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Audio Playback Default Device: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Audio Capture Devices: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Audio Capture Default Device: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Using Unity launcher counter.
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading accounts info...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted info...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading map...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted map...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted user settings...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: encrypted user settings read.
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted mtp data...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] MTP Info: read keys, current: 4, to destroy: 0
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Map read time: 0
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] App Info: reading encrypted mtp config...
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Export Info: Destroy top bar by controller removal.
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] OpenGL: Force-disabled.
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] OpenGL: [FALSE] (OverlayWidget)
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Notification daemon product name: Plasma
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Notification daemon vendor name: KDE
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Notification daemon version: 5.26.1
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Notification daemon specification version: 1.2
[2022.10.21 19:34:33] Notification daemon capabilities: body, body-hyperlinks, body-markup, body-images, icon-static, actions, persistence, inline-reply, x-kde-urls, x-kde-origin-name, x-kde-display-appname, inhibitions

[Aokromes]

plz try downloading official version from https://desktop.telegram.org

[R4rum]

Flatpak is shown directly on that page you just linked, too. I used the command given there, and I don't believe I modified any of the settings. I'm still a bit unclear on what's the criteria for an "official" Flatpak, but the biggest contributor to telegram-desktop (John Preston) is among the contributors to the Flatpak, and the third biggest contributor to telegram-desktop (ilya-fedin) is the biggest contributor to the Flatpak. Sounds "official enough" to me, and it was also listed on the new issue page under the Installation source.

I've successfully used the telegram-desktop package of my distribution before trying out this Flatpak. I did a system update after that, though.

[Aokromes]

i mean the non-flatpak non-snap version.

[R4rum]

It doesn't appear to be crashing in the kind of short time period that I described. Yeah, I don't think it's a total inability in any way to use Telegram that's an issue for me. Just that sandboxed version of it.

[ilya-fedin]

Maybe you've prohibited tdesktop to run in background once? flatpak remembers that and gives no way to reset that in any other way than CLI AFAIK: flatpak permission-remove background background org.telegram.desktop

[R4rum]

Yeah, it asked that at one point. I think I was looking into the setting of launching Telegram at startup. That's when it asked me, but I figured I could do the autostarting from Plasma's side without going into giving Telegram additional permissions, and didn't end up giving that permission. If it's such a crucial setting that can cause a lot of crashing without, maybe something should be done to make it so other users don't end up in this kind of a situation (unless maybe if they manually tamper with the sandbox settings). I do believe I even turned off the setting of autostarting afterwards, yet still apparently there were such problems.

After putting in that command, I've not had such a crash. Such a toggle is also available in Flatseal.

[ilya-fedin]

I don't think we have the right to alter the UI, sorry. You can try to submit an issue to https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal to separate autostart from background (currently you have to ask background permission in order to get autostart).