Server Version#: plexmediaserver 1.26.2.5797-5bd057d2b
Player Version#: Plex-HTPC 1.17.0
Snap of Plex HTPC fails to launch on desktop Ubuntu 22.04;
➜ ~ plex-htpc
Aborted (core dumped)
With sudo
➜ ~ sudo plex-htpc
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/user/0’: Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/snap/plex-htpc/8/usr/share/mime': No such file or directory
Directory '/root/snap/plex-htpc/8/.local/share/mime/packages' does not exist!
ERROR: update-mime-database /root/snap/plex-htpc/8/.local/share/mime exited abnormally with status 1
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
from logs;
root@hp-laptop:~/snap/plex-htpc/common/Logs# ls
'Plex HTPC.1.log' 'Plex HTPC.2.log' 'Plex HTPC.3.log' 'Plex HTPC.4.log' 'Plex HTPC.5.log' 'Plex HTPC.log'
root@hp-laptop:~/snap/plex-htpc/common/Logs# cat Plex\ HTPC.log
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.670 [0x7f283fd8a700] INFO - Starting Plex HTPC version: 1.17.0.3017-e5c724f3
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.671 [0x7f283fd8a700] INFO - Running on: Ubuntu Core 20 [5.15.0-33-generic] x86_64
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.671 [0x7f283fd8a700] INFO - Happy Plexing!
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.670 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] INFO - [OpenGL] Selected desktop renderer.
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.670 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] INFO - [OpenGL] Default surface format version: 2.0
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.670 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] INFO - [OpenGL] Selecting surface format version: 2.0; profile: 1
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.684 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] WARN - could not connect to display :0
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.684 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] INFO - Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "/snap/plex-htpc/8/plugins/platforms:" even though it was found.
May 31, 2022 11:11:31.684 [0x7f283fd8dfc0] ERROR - This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.
All other snaps work just fine
Launching from the icon, nothing happens, hence the CLI try above