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[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

Anybody got any clues on where to go from here? In particular, why the
filemanager desktop file can touch a file, but ours can't, when both
are unconfined?

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 10:39 +0100, Sam Bull wrote:
> OK, my laptop got destroyed, but has been fixed and I am back trying
> to
> sort this out again.
> 
> This is the status at the moment:
> 
>     When launching the app, there are a couple of apparmor denials
> about
>     trying to read /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages.
>         This proves that it is atleast running the Python binary.
> 
>     We changed it to an unconfined app. This means there are no more
>     denials, but it still does not launch, and there are still no
> logs,
>     crash reports or files written anywhere.
> 
>     We then wanted to check the unconfined nature of the app, and so
>     edited the desktop file and changed the Exec line to something
> like
>     'touch /home/phablet/testfile'. Still, this did not actually
> succeed
>     in writing a file.
> 
>     We then tried editing the filemanager-app's desktop file with the
>     same command. This successfully wrote a file.
> 
>     So, now we are really confused as to how the filemanager-app is
> able
>     to write this file, but our app is not able to. Despite running
> the
>     same command, and according to Permy having the same apparmor
> rules.

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