Downloaded RPM, crashes on start (XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)

[SpaceRaccoonFluff]

Describe the bug
I'm using Fedora 38. I downloaded the RPM and when I go to open the app, the terminal opens up asking me for my password. Once I put the password in the sniffnet logo and some text that I can't read before the terminal window vanishes/crashes 1 second later after entering my sudo password.

To Reproduce
Describe steps to reproduce the bug, e.g.:

1. Go to https://www.sniffnet.net/download/ and download RPM
2. Double click to install it.
3. Click the icon or "open" button in Software Center
4. Enter in your sudo password
5. Watch as it crashs.

Expected behavior
For the GUI to open up and let me use the app. Also why does clicking the icon open up my terminal instead of the GUI app from the start?

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux Fedora 38

Additional context
Is this a dependency issue? I did not install any, If so I am pretty new to linux overall still and need help with the exact commands for Fedora specifically to properly install them. Thanks to anyone who can get this working, I really need a GUI based bandwidth monitor and I want to like this one.

[GyulyVGC]

Hi @SpaceRaccoonFluff 😀

On Fedora, you have to install:

• alsa-lib-devel
• libpcap-devel
• fontconfig-devel

It opens the terminal at start because it needs admin privileges to monitor a network card on Linux (and macOS).

[SpaceRaccoonFluff]

I went ahead and sudo dnf installed those 3 but it's still crashing when I open it and type in my password in the terminal.

[GyulyVGC]

Do you receive any error message? If so, please post it.

[SpaceRaccoonFluff]

I had to record it and watch it frame by frame since the terminal crashes in less than a second after typing in the password but this is what I was able to capture before crashing/closing: https://imgur.com/a/lnLpdvu

[GyulyVGC]

I also got that error but it was more like a warning in my case because the app was able to correctly run anyway.
I'll come back to you if I have any news.

[GyulyVGC]

I remember of a guy who solved this exact problem in #17.
You can check how he solved it.

[SpaceRaccoonFluff]

Near the bottom that link mentions something about wgpu and x11. I use wayland on Fedora. Is that why the GUI is not showing up? If so what would the command to fix it be?

[GyulyVGC]

I honestly have no idea, but at this point I think that the problem is related to the graphical renderer.
If you have Rust installed, I suggest you to build Sniffnet from the glow-renderer branch, which usually solves renderer-related problems.

[4r7if3x]

This issue is probably related to #224 which will be patched soon.

Regarding:

On Fedora, you have to install:

• alsa-lib-devel
• libpcap-devel
• fontconfig-devel

The -dev / -devel versions of Linux packages are only useful to developers since they come with extra stuff necessary to build the app. End users can install the normal packages instead. However, in my incoming PR, I've added the dependencies to the installer, so you won't need to worry about that anymore.

Regarding:

I honestly have no idea, but at this point I think that the problem is related to the graphical renderer. If you have Rust installed, I suggest you to build Sniffnet from the glow-renderer branch, which usually solves renderer-related problems.

Here is what Iced troubleshooting says:

GraphicsAdapterNotFound

This occurs when the selected built-in renderer is not able to create a context.

Often this will occur while using iced_wgpu as the renderer without supported hardware (needs Vulkan, Metal or DX12). In this case, you could try using the iced_glow renderer.

NOTE: Chances are you have hardware that supports at least OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2.0, but if you don't, right now there's no software fallback, so it means your hardware doesn't support Iced.

Although I had faced such error in my testing VM, I don't believe it's related to your issue.

[GyulyVGC]

Hey @SpaceRaccoonFluff

We changed the building strategy and we are looking for feedback/testers to see if we finally solved this issue.

Could you kindly try the new package available below?

Sniffnet_LinuxRPM_x86_64.rpm.zip

Thanks in advance.