Sorry to bother but I need some help. I had to re-install from scratch my ubuntu 22.04. I installed dt version 4.6.1. All my raw files are on a disk/partition formatted with NTFS which is not the SSD where ubuntu is installed. I have a funny situation. I can access the disk with no problems through Nautilus under Other Locations, but in dt Other Locations would not expand. I can access the disk only thru the \mnt\xxxxxxxx link. This happens in multiple places, ie when I try to Add pictures or simply when I try to import a preset file. I suspect it is more linked to my ubuntu installation than to dt, but I would appreciate someone’s help. Note that I had dt 4.6.0 on the previous ubuntu 22.04 installation and I never experienced this problem. For info, the partition is mounted at boot. Thanks in advance for any tips!
Hey, welcome to the community.
Is this a snap install? Sounds like you’re sandboxed out of your disk by snap.
You could try mounting the disk using your fstab and see if you can import from there.
Hello Mica. Thanks for your quick reply.
I checked fstab and it had already the mount instructions for my disk. I edited it to a different mounting point in /media , but no change in dt behavior. If I launch dt from a terminal window I get the following error:
(darktable:7156): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 08:39:28.787: Error creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Permission denied (g-file-error-quark, 2)
1.7234 [lib_load_module] failed to open `gamepad’: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I do not know if the error is related to the problem I am reporting. I checked the app permissions in ‘settings’ and everything seems fine to me. Next I will re-install dt.
Seems to be snap-related. See
I’d just wipe snap from the system and use packages from OBS.
Thanks. I did got rid of snap and reinstalled all the packages affected. Everything’s working fine, now. Thanks to all for the help, I learned a lot in the process, although quite time consuming …
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Snap can sneak back in. Did you make sure that won’t happen? I think it has to be pinned, and/or the priority must be set. It was in the guide I posted on this forum some time ago.
Yap, I think I did pin it down with a .pref file and priority at -10 … I did as in the note that you posted. Thanks for reminding