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Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

62 points by mikae1 3y ago

DoctorOW 3y ago
Bitwarden UNSUPPORTED Linux client broken. As mentioned there are supported ways to use Linux.
- dsissitka 3y ago
  And supported. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560#issuecomment-1760365791 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560#issuecommen...
jsiepkes 3y ago
Didn't even know there was such an application. On Linux I use the browser plugin and occasionally the webbased interface.
politelemon 3y ago
Title should be corrected to Linux, it's happening in multiple distros according to that thread.
vsviridov 3y ago
Probably hardware acceleration in the chrome application host. I've seen this behavior in SyncTrayzor (syncthing client) recently.
Arnavion 3y ago
Since it's based on Electron, they might need to delete the `~/.config/<whatever bitwarden uses>/GPUCache` directory. I have this invisible text issue with VSCode and Chromium after every weekly packages update, because of Mesa updates I believe. Edit: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/40366#issuecomment-1789075486 https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/40366#issuecomme...
luryus 3y ago
I've been developing my own TUI Bitwarden client recently: https://github.com/luryus/wden https://github.com/luryus/wden I need passwords outside of the browser quite frequently (when SSHing to servers and so on), and the official Electron app just feels clunky and heavy to use and keep running constantly in the background. So creating a small and lightweight client optimized for my own usage patterns has been really useful. It may be useful for others, too, while the official client is broken.
- OJFord 3y ago
  There's an official CLI though isn't there?
  - mdaniel 3y ago
    https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/b/bitwarden-cli.rb#L6 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli -> https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/cli-v2023.10.0 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/cli-v2023.10.0
  - fdw 3y ago
    Yes, but it is quite uncomfortable to use, requiring you to get a session key and storing it somewhere. Instead, I've had good experiences with [rbw]. Maybe that would also be interesting for GP. I've used to rbw for a rofi (and rofi-like frontend): https://github.com/fdw/rofi-rbw/ https://github.com/fdw/rofi-rbw/ [rbw]: https://github.com/doy/rbw/ https://github.com/doy/rbw/
- lyu07282 3y ago
  You can detach the browser addon into its own window too, I would be too cautious using any third party clients like that.
ubermonkey 3y ago
I used Bitwarden until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL vault because of something goofy on the Bitwarden side. I'm on enPass now.
- cafeinux 3y ago
  Genuinely curious here: why not keypass?
  - walteweiss 3y ago
    And why not pass? More on that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316704
  - ubermonkey 3y ago
    This is an odd question, bc it seems to assume my road to enpass would have to go through an evaluation of keypass.
    - cafeinux 3y ago
      It's just that keypass seems to me more reknown (I had never heard of Enpass before), so I would have assumed one would have compared both before choosing one or the other. I was then wondering what were the benefits of Enpass over Keypass. Not that I have any preference or bias: I know keypass and wondered how it compared to a similar solution.
      - ubermonkey 3y ago
        Just to make you happy, I looked up Keypass. It doesn't support the platforms I use, so it's a nonstarter.
- Tracnac 3y ago
  Yeah lol, I used Linux until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL PC because of something goofy on a Linux update side. I'm on Windows now. You get the point !?
LorenDB 3y ago
Mine did this within the past month but it worked again after I installed updates (openSUSE Tumbleweed in case anyone wondered)
ubj 3y ago
This type of problem has been going on for weeks on multiple Linux distros. See for example the Github issue [0]. [0]: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560
Canada 3y ago
Whatever one of these password managers you may use, always remember to regularly export to the cleartext. Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount. Whenever you remember to do it, at least every couple of months. Even if it's not always up to date at least you won't be locked out of everything when these situations happen.
- walteweiss 3y ago
  Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, all the history is in git, and no party will ever change anything about my passwords.
  - eternityforest 3y ago
    Nearly all of my need for passwords is web-related. Autofill is incredibly convenient and also an anti-phishing measure, because it won't autofill fake sites, which would give me time to notice something was up. There doesn't seem to be major super popular audited autofill stuff, seems like the ecosystem is mostly smaller projects and the main focus is on the CLI. The remainder of the times I need passwords are mostly on mobile.
    - walteweiss 3y ago
      1. There are plugins and web clients: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions 2. Of course pass has mobile version, and to my liking it looks and works much better than 1Password that I migrated from. (And to my liking as well Bitwarden looks much worse, if we would ever happen to talk about looks in a password manager, lol. Of course that is highly subjective.) 3. I have shared stored with my work mates. That is different hit repositories that has those text files encrypted with more than one gpg key, and it works so incredibly well. And is free, forever. We manage that with gopass (a fork written in Go), as it’s easier to work with for not-so-techies.
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WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
A whole browser shipped only just to display a freaking list of passwords..
rpigab 3y ago
I've been using it only in browsers (Firefox mostly) for so long that I had forgotten it had a client other than mobile.
d3Xt3r 3y ago
Yet another example of why Electron sucks. Is it really that hard to make a native client, especially these days when we have so many cross-platform development frameworks?

62 points by mikae1 3y ago

DoctorOW 3y ago

Bitwarden UNSUPPORTED Linux client broken. As mentioned there are supported ways to use Linux.

dsissitka 3y ago
And supported. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560#issuecomment-1760365791 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560#issuecommen...

jsiepkes 3y ago

Didn't even know there was such an application. On Linux I use the browser plugin and occasionally the webbased interface.

politelemon 3y ago

Title should be corrected to Linux, it's happening in multiple distros according to that thread.

vsviridov 3y ago

Probably hardware acceleration in the chrome application host. I've seen this behavior in SyncTrayzor (syncthing client) recently.

Arnavion 3y ago

Since it's based on Electron, they might need to delete the `~/.config/<whatever bitwarden uses>/GPUCache` directory. I have this invisible text issue with VSCode and Chromium after every weekly packages update, because of Mesa updates I believe. Edit: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/40366#issuecomment-1789075486 https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/40366#issuecomme...

luryus 3y ago

I've been developing my own TUI Bitwarden client recently: https://github.com/luryus/wden https://github.com/luryus/wden I need passwords outside of the browser quite frequently (when SSHing to servers and so on), and the official Electron app just feels clunky and heavy to use and keep running constantly in the background. So creating a small and lightweight client optimized for my own usage patterns has been really useful. It may be useful for others, too, while the official client is broken.

OJFord 3y ago
There's an official CLI though isn't there?
- mdaniel 3y ago
  https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/b/bitwarden-cli.rb#L6 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli -> https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/cli-v2023.10.0 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/cli-v2023.10.0
- fdw 3y ago
  Yes, but it is quite uncomfortable to use, requiring you to get a session key and storing it somewhere. Instead, I've had good experiences with [rbw]. Maybe that would also be interesting for GP. I've used to rbw for a rofi (and rofi-like frontend): https://github.com/fdw/rofi-rbw/ https://github.com/fdw/rofi-rbw/ [rbw]: https://github.com/doy/rbw/ https://github.com/doy/rbw/
lyu07282 3y ago
You can detach the browser addon into its own window too, I would be too cautious using any third party clients like that.

ubermonkey 3y ago

I used Bitwarden until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL vault because of something goofy on the Bitwarden side. I'm on enPass now.

cafeinux 3y ago
Genuinely curious here: why not keypass?
- walteweiss 3y ago
  And why not pass? More on that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316704
- ubermonkey 3y ago
  This is an odd question, bc it seems to assume my road to enpass would have to go through an evaluation of keypass.
  - cafeinux 3y ago
    It's just that keypass seems to me more reknown (I had never heard of Enpass before), so I would have assumed one would have compared both before choosing one or the other. I was then wondering what were the benefits of Enpass over Keypass. Not that I have any preference or bias: I know keypass and wondered how it compared to a similar solution.
    - ubermonkey 3y ago
      Just to make you happy, I looked up Keypass. It doesn't support the platforms I use, so it's a nonstarter.
Tracnac 3y ago
Yeah lol, I used Linux until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL PC because of something goofy on a Linux update side. I'm on Windows now. You get the point !?

LorenDB 3y ago

Mine did this within the past month but it worked again after I installed updates (openSUSE Tumbleweed in case anyone wondered)

ubj 3y ago

This type of problem has been going on for weeks on multiple Linux distros. See for example the Github issue [0]. [0]: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560

Canada 3y ago

Whatever one of these password managers you may use, always remember to regularly export to the cleartext. Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount. Whenever you remember to do it, at least every couple of months. Even if it's not always up to date at least you won't be locked out of everything when these situations happen.

walteweiss 3y ago
Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, all the history is in git, and no party will ever change anything about my passwords.
- eternityforest 3y ago
  Nearly all of my need for passwords is web-related. Autofill is incredibly convenient and also an anti-phishing measure, because it won't autofill fake sites, which would give me time to notice something was up. There doesn't seem to be major super popular audited autofill stuff, seems like the ecosystem is mostly smaller projects and the main focus is on the CLI. The remainder of the times I need passwords are mostly on mobile.
  - walteweiss 3y ago
    1. There are plugins and web clients: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions 2. Of course pass has mobile version, and to my liking it looks and works much better than 1Password that I migrated from. (And to my liking as well Bitwarden looks much worse, if we would ever happen to talk about looks in a password manager, lol. Of course that is highly subjective.) 3. I have shared stored with my work mates. That is different hit repositories that has those text files encrypted with more than one gpg key, and it works so incredibly well. And is free, forever. We manage that with gopass (a fork written in Go), as it’s easier to work with for not-so-techies.

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WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago

A whole browser shipped only just to display a freaking list of passwords..

rpigab 3y ago

I've been using it only in browsers (Firefox mostly) for so long that I had forgotten it had a client other than mobile.

d3Xt3r 3y ago

Yet another example of why Electron sucks. Is it really that hard to make a native client, especially these days when we have so many cross-platform development frameworks?