Olive: AppImage does not start, fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex

Created on 30 Dec 2018 · 12Comments · Source: olive-editor/olive

An user on Twitter reports:

./Olive-5e81565-x86_64.AppImage ./Olive-5e81565-x86_64.AppImage: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex tnks

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I cannot reproduce this on xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso.

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probonopd

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The AppImage now runs as expected on Fedora (and presumably CentOS too). I guess we'll re-open this if anything else related to this comes up.

itsmattkc on 31 Dec 2018

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According to https://github.com/knapsu/plex-media-player-appimage/issues/14#issuecomment-408940087, not bundling libfribidi.so.0 may solve this. Can it be taken for granted to be there on each target system?

probonopd on 30 Dec 2018

I haven't seen this before either. Clearly some kind of dependency discrepancy of some kind, but without being able to recreate it, it'd be tough to figure out the root cause.

itsmattkc on 30 Dec 2018

For anyone running into this issue, please test:

# Extract the contents of the AppImage
./Olive-5e81565-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract

# Remove the bundled libfribidi
find ./squashfs-root -type f -name '*fribidi*' -delete

# Test if it runs
./squashfs-root/AppRun # Does it run?

probonopd on 30 Dec 2018

The user reports this happens on Fedora 29.

probonopd on 30 Dec 2018

Confirmed, this issue occurs on the latest version of Fedora, and the aforementioned solution fixes it.

itsmattkc on 30 Dec 2018

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So the only question left is whether we can blacklist Fribidi and assume it is "there" on all target systems (distributions). I am not sure on this one yet.

probonopd on 30 Dec 2018

Doing the above solution on Ubuntu (18.04) and Mint (19.1) have no effect on Olive running, so it's looking like we should be able to, but not 100% on other distros/older versions yet.

itsmattkc on 30 Dec 2018

I have the same issue on CentOS 7.6.1810.