Can't start Gittyup neither from Flatpak nor from AppImage

[thmsklngr-itsv]

Hi,

I tried to get Gittyup running on a Ubuntu 22.04 system and failed. I tried to install it with Flatpak which did not work. Then I tried to get it done with the AppImage, which ended up with this error message:

(AppImageLauncher:299282): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:53:41.736: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed
execv error: No such file or directory

No idea what the execv error means. Any hints?

Regards, Thomas

[jubiloso]

Same here

Using Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS:

$ flatpak run com.github.Murmele.Gittyup qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: xcb, eglfs, linuxfb, offscreen, vnc, minimal, minimalegl, wayland-brcm, wayland-egl, wayland, vkkhrdisplay.

[jubiloso]

@Murmele thanks for this great app.

Temporal solution tested in Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, update to the previous version:

$ flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.github.Murmele.Gittyup
[...]
      Commit: adfe463ee26a63bdaaa0af13f71e26bf9a925d37f43b4527c7b14625ab5a08a7
      Asunto: update to release 1.4.0 (#44) (21f22a60)
       Fecha: 2024-05-15 22:15:19 +0000
[...]

$ sudo flatpak update --commit=adfe463ee26a63bdaaa0af13f71e26bf9a925d37f43b4527c7b14625ab5a08a7 com.github.Murmele.Gittyup
[...]
Info: runtime org.kde.Platform branch 5.15-23.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   We strongly recommend moving to the latest stable version of the Platform and SDK
Info: applications using this runtime:
   com.notepadqq.Notepadqq, com.github.Murmele.Gittyup
[...]

It warns that the freedesktop and KDE platforms are obsolete, but it works again.

EDIT: To avoid futher updates of this app:

$ flatpak mask com.github.Murmele.Gittyup

[lorddevereux]

Confirmed on Linux Mint 22.2 with the same issue about libxcb. I have confirmed that libxcb-cursor0 and libxcb-cursor-dev is installed on the system but still nothing

[Ovidio1005]

Confirmed on Kubuntu 24.04 as well for the flatpak version (I didn't try the AppImage). I can also confirm that @jubiloso's solution of downgrading to the previous version works on my system. Here is the output from running flatpak run com.github.Murmele.Gittyup before downgrading:

qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: wayland-brcm, wayland-egl, wayland, linuxfb, vkkhrdisplay, minimal, xcb, minimalegl, offscreen, eglfs, vnc.

[Zishan-Rahman]

I opened an issue in the Flathub repository for the Flatpak but had no idea it was being discussed here. I can confirm that, on Linux Mint 22.2, I'm having the same issue when trying to run the Flatpak from Flathub at the moment, even after installing libxcb-cursor-dev (the AppImage is working fine, though).

[JCode-2]

I have the flatpack version on Ubuntu 2.04.2 LTS. It has worked fine since ~March when I installed it. I tried to use it today and it does not open. I tried to launch from Software Centre and it gave the error "Failed to sync with dbus proxy". I think that is a separate issue, though, because other flatpack apps I have (eg. Organic Maps) open fine from the desktop icon but throw this same error if I try from the Software Centre. It seems the launching-from-desktop-icon problem is unique to Gittyup. Thanks to anyone who can provide a solution.

Question to the rest of you: did Gittyup previously work fine or have you had this issue since you installed it?

[manujchandra]

I am on Debian 12.

The latest Flatpak version of Gittyup was working fine. I updated my Flatpaks (the update did not include Gittyup) and after that Gittyup stopped opening.

I rolled back to the previous day using snapper and Gittyup worked again. I again updated Flatpaks and it stopped working.

Since there were 10-12 updates in the Flatpak, I could not isolate which Flatpak was causing Gittyup to not start.

[YU-7]

Same here

Using Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS:

$ flatpak run com.github.Murmele.Gittyup qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: xcb, eglfs, linuxfb, offscreen, vnc, minimal, minimalegl, wayland-brcm, wayland-egl, wayland, vkkhrdisplay.

In mint linux you can restart OS , when you log in choose the wayland then gittyup can worked. I think this same in unbuntu.