Beta 12 AppImage won’t run

[pierreporte]

Even though I already reported something similar in #1148 (comment), I decided to give it more visibility by opening a dedicated issue. This way, other people could report similar issues in a single place.

Each time that I try to run the AppImage, I get this error message in the terminal:

QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::setFont: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
./otter-browser-0.9.12-beta12-x86_64.AppImage: symbol lookup error: ./otter-browser-0.9.12-beta12-x86_64.AppImage: undefined symbol: _ZN12QWebSettings17pluginSearchPathsEv

I always run an up-to-date Archlinux when trying this.

[Emdek]

It appears that somehow it picks up your global Qt installation, perhaps it could be avoided by use of some sort of startup script that would try to preload bundled libraries.

[probonopd]

The question is, why is it doing that... inside the AppImage, there should either be a script or binary called AppRun that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the inside of the AppImage, or the binaries and libraries should have rpath set from running patchelf (which is what linuxdeployqt does).

[Emdek]

@probonopd, they are patched.
But yeah, setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is what I would like to try out.

[Emdek]

@pierreporte, this one should help:
https://otter-browser.org/tmp/otter-browser-x86_64.AppImage

[pierreporte]

@Emdek this one won’t run either:

execv error: No such file or directory

GDB doesn’t give more details.

[Emdek]

@pierreporte, I'm out of ideas, you can try to follow instructions from here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/774490/what-is-an-appimage-how-do-i-install-it/836547#836547
Simply mount it somewhere and try running AppRun or otter-browser.sh.

[pierreporte]

I was able to mount your AppImage and the beta 12 AppImage. They run normally as far as I tested. However, there were some ugly output:

otter-browser-x86_64.AppImage

This one bundles a GTK theme unlike the beta 12.

Your AppRun seems to be wrong. It links to /home/michal/Pobrane/otter/otter-browser/otter-browser.sh and thus doesn’t work. otter-browser.sh works.

Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
No language dictionaries for the language: "fr"
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv3_client_method
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv3_server_method

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstassrender.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstqmlgl.so': ./lib/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.7' not found (required by /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstqmlgl.so)

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstgtksink.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdashdemux.so': ./lib/libxml2.so.2: version `LIBXML2_2.9.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdashdemux.so)

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstzbar.so': libzbar.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstrsvg.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstx265.so': libx265.so.95: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstclutter.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpango.so': /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpulse.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpulse.so: symbol pa_format_info_is_compatible, version PULSE_0 not defined in file libpulse.so.0 with link time reference

(gst-plugin-scanner:27445): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfdkaac.so': libfdk-aac.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Beta 12 AppImage

AppRun links to ./otter-browser

Terminal output:

Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
No language dictionaries for the language: "fr"
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv3_client_method
qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve SSLv3_server_method

[Emdek]

@pierreporte, right, it ended up with absolute symlink. :-/
It seems that you are missing OpenSSL 1.0 and probably some GStreamer 1.x packages too.

[pierreporte]

You mean, on my system? I have OpenSSL 1.0.2, GStreamer 1.10.2 (with every plugins), Phonon GStreamer 4.9.0 for Qt5, but not qt-gstreamer.

[Emdek]

@pierreporte, then I'm out of ideas.
I could bundle GStreamer but it won't be able to play proprietary formats and most likely will end up without sound thanks to Pulse Audio.
OpenSSL issue has own ticket, #1233.

[pierreporte]

It wouldn’t be surprising that my system is completely messed up. I installed Archlinux five years ago and didn’t really took care of it. I have been thinking of doing a fresh install but it will wait that I buy a SSD.

[probonopd]

@Emdek

@pierreporte, this one should help:
https://otter-browser.org/tmp/otter-browser-x86_64.AppImage

Runs for me on ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso. The only message I see on the console is No language dictionaries for the language: "en".

[pierreporte]

Weekly 138 AppImage runs fine. The problem seems to have been fixed somehow.