Obsidian Crashes when Clicking the 'Browse' Button while Creating a New Vault - Ubuntu - KDE Plasma

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create new vault
  2. Click ‘Browse’ to select a directory to save the new vault in

Expected result

A file manager prompt opening, allowing the user to select a specific directory

Actual result

Obsidian crashes

Environment

  • Operating system: Ubuntu (Kubuntu)
  • Operating system version: 21.04
  • Obsidian version: 0.12.19

Additional information

Logs during crash in /var/log/syslog:

Nov 11 15:41:17 hostname-123 kernel: [793164.653621] audit: type=1400 audit(1636666877.812:674): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“open” profile=“snap.obsidian.obsidian” name="/etc/fstab" pid=376230 comm=“obsidian” requested_mask=“r” denied_mask=“r” fsuid=1000 ouid=0

Nov 11 15:41:17 hostname-123 kernel: [793164.655181] audit: type=1400 audit(1636666877.812:675): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“open” profile=“snap.obsidian.obsidian” name="/run/mount/utab" pid=376230 comm=“obsidian” requested_mask=“r” denied_mask=“r” fsuid=1000 ouid=0

Nov 11 15:41:18 hostname-123 systemd[1690]: snap.obsidian.obsidian.85fefd85-07b5-4752-94d1-90d637d96982.scope: Succeeded.

Nov 11 15:41:18 hostname-123 systemd[1690]: app-obsidian_obsidian-8775c59c28d74d9b9f2d6267c1fb251b.scope: Succeeded.

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Can you tell me your installer version and method (AppImage, Snap, etc?)

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I followed the info in this link:

sudo snap install --dangerous obsidian_0.12.19_amd64.snap
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Also:

username-123@hostname-123:~$ snap version
snap    2.53.2
snapd   2.53.2
series  16
ubuntu  21.04
kernel  5.11.0-40-generic
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Please go into About in the settings and take a screenshot of the versions shown up in there

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Also note that the snap has had weird sandboxing issues in the past. You might want to try with the AppImage instead (at least to rule out Snap’s sandboxing)

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The error logs looks like an apparmor issue that is a permission issue.

Where is you vault and where is obsidian. Does it have access to that location according to apparmor?

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I’m having this same problem. I’m using Ubuntu 20.04, and the AppImage version 0.12.19. Obsidian crashes after a second or two of the files app being open, whether I try to open an existing vault or create a new one. I don’t have apparmor or any other program that I believe would be causing a permission issue.

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Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-40-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1607 0 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645/PCIe/SSE2

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@TaranYourAss we still need this information. @owlsys could you provide the same as I mentioned above? And please also answer the following:

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Please go into About in the settings and take a screenshot of the versions shown up in there

If it’s not this information, then I don’t know what you mean, there isn’t an about section in the settings. If you could clarify what versions I would expect to find, I can go from there.

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Where is you vault and where is obsidian. Does it have access to that location according to apparmor?

I do not have a vault, when I try to create one it crashes.

obsidian is located at: /snap/bin/obsidian

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Ah thank you, I did not piece together you meant within Obsidian itself:

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Both Obsidian and the installer are v0.12.19

Obsidian is in /home/applications, while other files are in /home/.config/obsidian

Also, as I was poking around, I decided to try opening a vault once again and… it works! I don’t know how it does, the app is still on the same version as it was when I was having the problem.