I post this here mostly as a help to anyone else who runs into the issue and comes across this bug report. Still, perhaps it would be nice if, when that "user_xattr" error message pops up, giving the user a way to change the directory to another location so that it might run?
I have a similar problem with my home directory being on an NFS mount, and if I try to add "user_xattr" to the mount, then it won't mount anymore.
My solution was to modify the /usr/bin/ netflix- desktop script to tell it that my home directory was somewhere else:
# Enable translation capabilities
. gettext.sh
# Added this line to allow netflix-desktop to run
export HOME=/opt/videos
# End of changes
export TEXTDOMAIN= "netflix- desktop" ; "/usr/share/ locale" ;
export TEXTDOMAINDIR=
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I post this here mostly as a help to anyone else who runs into the issue and comes across this bug report. Still, perhaps it would be nice if, when that "user_xattr" error message pops up, giving the user a way to change the directory to another location so that it might run?