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tyler124
tyler124

Reputation: 673

appimage-builder: AppImage successfully created but does not run on other machines

I've run through the tutorial here: https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html#

Which resulted in a runable Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage file (no docker tests were run).

Initially, the AppImage works as expected. Double-clicking the AppImage from the GUI or running it via the console results in the tutorial application running.

However, two scenarios will result in the AppImage file no longer working:

Both scenarios have the same behavior. The application will appear as if it contains no executable code and immediately exit. Normally the application has a GUI interface. No error message is displayed.

Running from console:

tb@dt:~/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template$ ll
total 176860
drwxr-xr-x 8 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:25  ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:18  ../
drwxr-xr-x 6 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:25  AppDir/
drwxr-xr-x 4 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:25  appimage-builder-cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb      3430 Nov 22 22:35  AppImageBuilder.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb     13981 Nov 23 14:18  CMakeCache.txt
drwxr-xr-x 4 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:18  CMakeFiles/
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb      1808 Nov 23 14:18  cmake_install.cmake
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb       439 Nov 23 14:18  CMakeLists.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb       498 Nov 23 14:18  conanfile.txt
drwxr-xr-x 8 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:18  .git/
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb        19 Nov 23 14:18  .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb       450 Nov 23 14:18  .gitlab-ci.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb       159 Nov 23 14:18  install_manifest.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb      6948 Nov 23 14:18  Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tb tb 181010472 Nov 23 14:25 'Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage'*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tb tb        67 Nov 23 14:18  README.md
drwxr-xr-x 3 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:18  res/
drwxr-xr-x 4 tb tb      4096 Nov 23 14:18  src/
tb@dt:~/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template$ ./'Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage'
tb@dt:~/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template$

(nothing happens)

gdb:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/tb/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template/Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
process 2651 is executing new program: /tmp/.mount_Qt AppVj8Ud9/AppRun
[Inferior 1 (process 2651) exited with code 01]
(gdb)

The AppImage was built from the ~/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template directory using: appimage-builder --skip-test

Here is the last part of the output from when the AppImage was being built:

INFO:root:Writing bundle info to: .bundle.yml
INFO:root:Downloading runtime: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/runtime-x86_64
INFO:root:Generating AppImage from ./AppDir
INFO:appimagetool:appimagetool --runtime-file appimage-builder-cache/runtime-x86_64 ./AppDir /home/tb/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template/Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage
INFO:appimagetool:Parallel mksquashfs: Using 4 processors
INFO:appimagetool:Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/tb/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template/Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage, block size 131072.
INFO:appimagetool:[============-                                               ][===========================================================\] 11826/11826 100%
INFO:appimagetool:
INFO:appimagetool:Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072
INFO:appimagetool:compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments,
INFO:appimagetool:compressed xattrs, compressed ids
INFO:appimagetool:duplicates are removed
INFO:appimagetool:Filesystem size 176580.52 Kbytes (172.44 Mbytes)
INFO:appimagetool:35.82% of uncompressed filesystem size (492966.84 Kbytes)
INFO:appimagetool:Inode table size 142021 bytes (138.69 Kbytes)
INFO:appimagetool:23.51% of uncompressed inode table size (604061 bytes)
INFO:appimagetool:Directory table size 152721 bytes (149.14 Kbytes)
INFO:appimagetool:33.80% of uncompressed directory table size (451834 bytes)
INFO:appimagetool:Number of duplicate files found 1031
INFO:appimagetool:Number of inodes 15794
INFO:appimagetool:Number of files 8380
INFO:appimagetool:Number of fragments 355
INFO:appimagetool:Number of symbolic links  6432
INFO:appimagetool:Number of device nodes 0
INFO:appimagetool:Number of fifo nodes 0
INFO:appimagetool:Number of socket nodes 0
INFO:appimagetool:Number of directories 982
INFO:appimagetool:Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
INFO:appimagetool:Number of uids 1
INFO:appimagetool:root (0)
INFO:appimagetool:Number of gids 1
INFO:appimagetool:root (0)
INFO:appimagetool:/home/tb/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template/AppDir should be packaged as /home/tb/appimage_tutorial/qt-appimage-template/Qt AppImage Template-latest-x86_64.AppImage
WARNING:appimagetool:appimagetool, continuous build (commit aaef827), build 2143 built on 2020-11-22 12:53:26 UTC
WARNING:appimagetool:Using architecture x86_64
WARNING:appimagetool:Deleting pre-existing .DirIcon
WARNING:appimagetool:Creating .DirIcon symlink based on information from desktop file
WARNING:appimagetool:WARNING: AppStream upstream metadata is missing, please consider creating it
WARNING:appimagetool:in usr/share/metainfo/QtQuickControls2Application.appdata.xml
WARNING:appimagetool:Please see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps
WARNING:appimagetool:for more information or use the generator at http://output.jsbin.com/qoqukof.
WARNING:appimagetool:Generating squashfs...
WARNING:appimagetool:Embedding ELF...
WARNING:appimagetool:Marking the AppImage as executable...
WARNING:appimagetool:Embedding MD5 digest
WARNING:appimagetool:Success
WARNING:appimagetool:
WARNING:appimagetool:Please consider submitting your AppImage to AppImageHub, the crowd-sourced
WARNING:appimagetool:central directory of available AppImages, by opening a pull request
WARNING:appimagetool:at https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io
INFO:root:AppImage created successfully

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1077

Answers (1)

queeg
queeg

Reputation: 9384

I suspect you did not install an appropriate AppRun in the AppDir directory. But the process fails without error message.

I suggest you run the AppImage with strace to see more.

Upvotes: 0

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