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We are creating AppImage for rustdesk, which can greatly improve the user experience using it. We use appimage-builder to create the AppImage and follow the instructions on offical website of appimage-builder. However, the AppImage can only run successfully in a part of distros. I highly doubt there is some issue when bundling gtk in AppImage, causing critical errors with different version of X11.

Build Env: Ubuntu 18.04 Tested: Ubuntu 18.04(works), Ubuntu 20.04(works), Kubuntu 22.04(works), Manjaro 21.2.6(some works, some is not working, causing gnutls 3_6 not symbol found), Fedora 36 workstation(GNOME wayland) (not working, core dumped).

The AppImageBuilder.yml is here. I use gdb on Fedora 36 workstation to trace the issue, the backtrace is shown below:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff1851fc1 in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#1  0x00007ffff185305c in g_log_default_handler () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2  0x00007ffff18532e2 in g_logv () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00007ffff185343f in g_log () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff210e4f9 in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00007ffff210eb5c in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00007ffff211297b in g_settings_get_enum () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00007ffff5494edf in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#8  0x00007ffff5496148 in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#9  0x00007ffff549072e in ?? () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff5435d5d in gdk_display_manager_open_display () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff702f69a in gtk_init_check () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#12 0x00007ffff702f6c9 in gtk_init () from /tmp/.mount_RustDeu7cpf2//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#13 0x00005555554d1a9d in ?? ()
#14 0x00005555554be0e3 in ?? ()
#15 0x00005555554d5bcc in main ()

Is it OK to bundle the whole of libgtk-3-0 in AppImage(it's added by appimage-builder --generate automatically)? This package brings lots of dependencies(like gnutls, libglib-2.0), which causes conflict with some systems.

libnsl is part of glibc on Ubuntu based systems but Fedora people move it into another package therefore is not present in the system when the AppImage runs. A solution would be to move libnsl.so.1 from opt/libc to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1 (you can use a cp command for this in the after bundle, if you use the include file it will also put it in opt/libc).

We should implement this solutions as part of appimage-builder soon.

Thanks for your kind reply :). Another question is libgtk-3-0, appimage-builder bundles whole libgtk-3-0 into AppImage(brings lots of dependencies like gnutls, libglib-2.0), but I found some of distros crashes when startup our application, just like the backstrace shown above. But without libgtk-3-0 package being bundled, the AppImage cannot run entirely. is there any better solutions for this issue?

AFIK there are no known issues with libgtk-3-0. I use a Gimp recipe for testing it, maybe you could share the broken bundle so I could take a closer look into it.

AFIK there are no known issues with libgtk-3-0. I use a Gimp recipe for testing it, maybe you could share the broken bundle so I could take a closer look into it.

Thanks, Appimage is here

AppimageBuilder.yml is here

any issues found in this AppImage? :)

I think it's also worth noticing https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/577#issuecomment-1151399825

Fedora 36 workstation(GNOME wayland) (not working, core dumped).

This could be related to missing wayland support. -> https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56

I maintain the 0ad appimage. The Atlas map editor uses gtk3. There haven't been any reports of problems with it yet.

To bundle gtk, I use the linuxdeploy gtk plugin