Unable to start lutris

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Hello, I have a problem when I’m trying to start lutris on ubuntu 20.04. When I’m trying to start it from terminal the output is:

2021-03-14 11:29:23,481: Loading of DXVK versions failed, defaulting to locally available versions 2021-03-14 11:29:23,486: Loading of DXVK versions failed, defaulting to locally available versions 2021-03-14 11:29:23,571: Initializing lutris 2021-03-14 11:29:23,572: Loading of DXVK versions failed, defaulting to locally available versions 2021-03-14 11:29:23,575: Loading of DXVK versions failed, defaulting to locally available versions 2021-03-14 11:29:23,580: Error while completing task <bound method LutrisInitDialog.initialize of <dialogs.LutrisInitDialog object at 0x7fc5e89c71c0 (lutris+gui+dialogs+LutrisInitDialog at 0x1c86290)>>: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/sam/.local/share/icons/hicolor' File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/jobs.py", line 34, in target result = self.function(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/dialogs/__init__.py", line 195, in initialize init_lutris() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/startup.py", line 152, in init_lutris init_dirs() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/startup.py", line 40, in init_dirs create_folder(directory) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/system.py", line 237, in create_folder os.makedirs(path) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 213, in makedirs makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 213, in makedirs makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 223, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) 2021-03-14 11:29:26,012: Lutris 0.5.8.3 2021-03-14 11:29:26,013: Running migration: mess_to_mame Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 316, in do_command_line migrate() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/migrations/__init__.py", line 29, in migrate migration.migrate() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/migrations/mess_to_mame.py", line 8, in migrate for pga_game in get_games(): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/database/games.py", line 21, in get_games return sql.filtered_query(PGA_DB, "games", searches=searches, filters=filters, excludes=excludes, sorts=sorts) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/database/sql.py", line 162, in filtered_query return db_query(db_path, query, tuple(params)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/database/sql.py", line 110, in db_query cursor_execute(cursor, query, params) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/database/sql.py", line 34, in cursor_execute results = cursor.execute(query, params) sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: games 2021-03-14 11:29:26,028: Shutting down Lutris

It also shows the dialog that it’s starting up but nothing happens:
Screenshot from 2021-03-14 11-27-50

Thank you for your help

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That’s weird. You shouldn’t have a permission problem in the user’s home folder.

But it might actually be crashing from this sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: games

I don’t know what happened there but it looks really messed up. The only thing I can think of is to wait for an update and see if it fixes it, remove Lutris and all leftover Lutris files in the hidden user folders then install it and try again, or try using Lutris from github.

Make sure you’re not trying to start it from root user though (su/sudo).

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I have already removed every single file (lutris, cache, local, config files, etc…) multiple times and installed again. I also tried to install it from tar.xz package but the same problem occured again. I don’t know what to do…

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Just guessing here…

test your python installation.

Double check permissions on that folder, although I think other things would be messed if they were wrong
chown -R $(whoami) ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor
chmod -R 664 ~./local/share/icons/hicolor