$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions

[GeorgeBekh]

Operating System

Linux

What's the issue you encountered?

Run:
flatpak run net.werwolv.ImHex

Output:

[18:31:14] [INFO]  [main] Welcome to ImHex 1.25.0!
[18:31:14] [INFO]  [main] Native scaling set to: 1.2
[18:31:14] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Creating directories' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[18:31:14] [ERROR] [main] Failed to load configuration! $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[18:31:14] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Loading settings' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[18:31:14] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Loading plugins' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[18:31:14] [INFO]  [main] Task 'Checking for updates' finished in 0 ms
[18:31:17] [INFO]  [main] Task 'Loading fonts' finished in 2750 ms

How can the issue be reproduced?

install ImHex from flatpak and run it

ImHex Version

1.25.0

ImHex Build Type

• Nightly or built from sources

Installation type

flatpak

Additional context?

No response

[WerWolv]

Hey
This is most likely an issue with your linux distro or your setup. Either your distro doesn't follow the XDG convention or you somehow messed up the permissions of those folders. I just tested it on my Arch machine and it works fine there.
Are you encountering any issues afterwards or does it just display these error messages?

In any case, probably not an ImHex issue.

[LordGaav]

I can also reproduce this with the Flatpak version of ImHex 1.26.2 on Debian 11:

lordgaav@asura:~$ flatpak run net.werwolv.ImHex
[12:59:52] [INFO]  [main] Welcome to ImHex 1.26.2!
[12:59:52] [INFO]  [main] Native scaling set to: 1.0
[12:59:52] [INFO]  [main] Task 'Setting up environment' finished in 0 ms
[12:59:52] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Creating directories' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[12:59:52] [ERROR] [main] Failed to load configuration! $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[12:59:52] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Loading settings' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[12:59:52] [ERROR] [main] Init task 'Loading plugins' threw an exception: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
[12:59:52] [INFO]  [main] Task 'Checking for updates' finished in 0 ms
[12:59:54] [INFO]  [main] Task 'Loading fonts' finished in 1794 ms
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'xdg::BaseDirectoryException'
  what():  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions

lordgaav@asura:~$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/1000

lordgaav@asura:~$ ls -la /run/user
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root      60 14 jan 19:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 root     root     980 15 jan 12:03 ..
drwx------ 18 lordgaav lordgaav 540 15 jan 12:55 1000

The dir already has permissions 0700, but ImHex is convinced it's not.

[LordGaav]

Problem was solved for me by updating to Flatpak 1.14.1-1~bpo11+1 from the bullseye backports. Seems like an issue fixed in Flatpak 1.11.1: flatpak/flatpak#3397

[Stadtmusiker]

As mentioned by @WerWolv, this is a distro/setup issue. Self-heal. Here's another example from NixOS-WSL (may be ok in pure NixOS. See comment).

[nix-shell:~]$ nix-shell -p imhex
# (stdout stuff...)

[nix-shell:~]$ nix-info
system: "x86_64-linux", multi-user?: yes, version: nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1, channels(root): "nixos-23.11, nixos-wsl", nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[nix-shell:~]$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/1000/

[nix-shell:~]$ ls -l $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/..
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 nixos users 180 Mar 18 21:06 1000

[nix-shell:~]$ imhex
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'xdg::BaseDirectoryException'
  what():  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must have 0700 as permissions
Aborted

ImHex worked for me after doing chmod 700 /run/user/1000.