Bottles: failed to commit changes to dconf via bubblejail

[Raj2032]

When I launch the application via terminal:

bubblejail run -- bottles bottles

The application launches but when I press on "Bottles" tab then I get this error on terminal and the tab cannot be pressed:

(bottles:2): dconf-WARNING **: 01:37:43.253: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown

how would I resolve this?

I also get this error at the beginning when starting the application:

(bottles:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:43:57.758: Creating a portal monitor failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied

Any suggestions in order to resolve this?

[krotname]

This is a Bubblejail permission problem, not a Bottles setting problem.

Both errors are DBus/portal access being blocked by the sandbox:

failed to commit changes to dconf ... ServiceUnknown
Creating a portal monitor failed ... AccessDenied

In Bubblejail these are separate services/settings. The relevant Bubblejail code has:

• gnome_toolkit.dconf_dbus -> allows talking to ca.desrt.dconf
• gnome_toolkit.gnome_portal -> allows org.freedesktop.portal.* and sets GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
• xdg_desktop_portal.settings -> allows org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.*

So add/enable these in the Bubblejail instance used for Bottles, usually:

# ~/.local/share/bubblejail/instances/bottles/services.toml

[gnome_toolkit]
gnome_portal = true
dconf_dbus = true
gnome_vfs_dbus = true

[xdg_desktop_portal]
add_flatpak_info = true
settings = true
file_chooser = true
open_uri = true

Then restart the sandboxed app:

bubblejail run bottles -- bottles

If the instance name is not bottles, check it with:

bubblejail list instances

You can also run Bubblejail with DBus logging/wizard mode and let it suggest the missing permissions, but from the two messages above, dconf_dbus and the Settings portal are the first things to enable.

If you do not specifically need Bubblejail here, the simpler path is to run Bottles as the supported Flatpak package, because Bottles is already designed around Flatpak/portal permissions.