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Exit Status 256 on Update

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with flatpak update -vv on RHEL 9.7 using flatpak 1.12.9, then investigate the /app/bin/apply_extra step and its xz, tar, mv, and rm errors. Done means the update applies the extra data successfully without exit status 256.

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Description

On RHEL 9.7, flatpak 1.12.9, verbose output on > flatpak update -vv

F: Running /app/bin/apply_extra
xz: Failed to enable the sandbox
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mv: cannot stat 'usr/share/code': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'usr': No such file or directory
Error: While trying to apply extra data: apply_extra script failed, exit status 256

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