flatpak-builder error with ubuntu-24.04 image

[equeim]

Description

After Ubuntu runners were updated to 24.04 I started getting strange error when running flatpak-builder (this is an excerpt from the end of the log):

Renaming org.equeim.Tremotesf.appdata.xml to share/metainfo/org.equeim.Tremotesf.metainfo.xml
Running appstreamcli compose
Only accepting components: org.equeim.Tremotesf, org.equeim.Tremotesf.desktop
Processing directory: /home/runner/work/tremotesf2/tremotesf2/.flatpak-builder/rofiles/rofiles-9SZRjw/files
Composing metadata...
Refer to the generated issue report data for details on the individual problems.
Run failed, some data was ignored.
Errors were raised during this compose run:
general
  E: filters-but-no-output

org.equeim.Tremotesf
  E: file-read-error
Error: ERROR: appstreamcli compose failed: Child process exited with code 1
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Here is the workflow job: https://github.com/equeim/tremotesf2/blob/6b1076f9a23376c42608cd7c34c714a6254a6c82/.github/workflows/main.yml#L136

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025

Image version and build link

ubuntu-24.04 20250105.1.0

Is it regression?

ubuntu-22.04 20250105.1.0

Expected behavior

flatpak-builder succeeds to build Flatpak application

Actual behavior

flatpak-builder fails with E: file-read-error error.

Repro steps

1. Run flatpak-builder to build an app

[Prabhatkumar59]

Hi @equeim - Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. We will look into this issue and will update you after investigating:)

[Prabhatkumar59]

Hi @equeim - For the above issue, Could you please check once whether all required dependencies for flatpak-builder are installed. You can add this step before invoking the build:-

- name: Install Flatpak Builder Dependencies
  run: |
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y \
      flatpak-builder \
      python3-gi \
      appstream-util \
      build-essential \
      libarchive-tools

Also, the error filters-but-no-output indicates that appstreamcli is not generating valid metadata. For this, requesting you to modify your flatpak-builder command to avoid strict filters as : -
Here, use --force-clean and --disable-rofiles-fuse in the flatpak-builder command.

- name: Build Flatpak
  run: flatpak-builder --force-clean --require-changes --disable-rofiles-fuse build-dir your-app.flatpak

Please check with above solutions & let us know if you encounter issue. Thanks!