Vscodium: CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 - /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.9 not found - codium v 1.49.2

[gianricod]

Hello
After upgrading to 1.49.2 i run into the issue below:

The terminal process failed to launch: A native exception occurred during launch (/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.9 not found

Downgraded to 1.49.1 to have a working version.

Is this solvable or my OS version is not supported anymore?

[GitMensch]

Same here. Some extensions seem to not work correctly any more and terminal is broken.

The reason is "obviously" that this VSCodium version was built against libstdc++ 6 while yum info libstdc++ shows

~
Installed Packages
Name : libstdc++
Arch : x86_64
Version : 4.8.5
Release : 39.el7
Size : 1.0 M
Repo : installed
From repo : base
~

I _guess_ you're using the rpm option provided by paulcarroty, I _think_ this is related to his build environment, see https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/-/issues/44

[calvellido]

Uhmm, it also happened to me in a Linux Mint OS (1.49.1 working great):

> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="18.3 (Sylvia)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18.3"
VERSION_ID="18.3"
HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/"
VERSION_CODENAME=sylvia
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

> apt version libstdc++6
5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.125.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12

[calvellido]

What I did in my Ubuntu based system to stay up to date with VSCodium is to update my libstdc++ version and related libraries through the Ubuntu Toolchain repo and packages:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test

[GitMensch]

The issue is solved for me with 1.49.3 and yum update. @gianricod I guess it is the same for you and we can close this issue?

[eakst7]

I still have the same problem with 1.49.3 on RHEL 7.8.

[gianricod]

Same issue for me with 1.49.3

FYI:
[gianrico@gianrico-dev~]$ strings /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 | grep CXXABI
CXXABI_1.3
CXXABI_1.3.1
CXXABI_1.3.2
CXXABI_1.3.3
CXXABI_1.3.4
CXXABI_1.3.5
CXXABI_1.3.6
CXXABI_1.3.7
CXXABI_TM_1

I do not know where to find an official libstdc++ with CXXABI_1.3.9 for centos 7 and i do not want to mess things up with the packages from unsupported repositories

[GitMensch]

... nice to see some updates ... so yes, didn't looked well enough it is still happening here, too :-(

[P-N-L]

Alternatively (and forgive me if I misunderstand how AppImages are typically used), could whichever version of libstdc++ gets used to build be packaged into the AppImage itself? My understanding is that as long as the kernel understands the calls made from the image, all dependencies can (and should) be included for maximum portability.

[dimkr]

I think it's because CI/CD moved to GitHub. The official builds used to run on Ubuntu 14.04, but now they run on latest, which forces the Codium user to have an up to date distro:

jobs:
  linux:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

Changing to ubuntu-16.04 will restore support for some older distros, haven't checked if CentOS 7's GCC is new enough to have the minimum required libstdc++.

EDIT: actually, I'm not sure, because now I see CI uses Debian containers. The real problem is that the build used to happen on Ubuntu 14.04, and now it happens on a newer Debian.

EDIT 2: trying to fix this issue in https://github.com/dimkr/vscodium/pull/6 by linking libraries from the build environment statically into node modules. This will make official binaries compatible with older distros, without making the build environment impossible to upgrade.

EDIT 3: also trying another approach locally, the required C++ ABI level can be set

[stripedpajamas]

I've just recently switched to containers in the latest build, which is using ubuntu 14.04. So once I get 1.50.0 releases out you all can see if it's fixed.

[stripedpajamas]

Releases are available; can you all try it out? Snap release might be delayed a bit, as that is maintained separately. And also this release doesn't include an AppImage yet (#532).

[eakst7]

1.50.0 works for me. Thanks for the fix!

[gianricod]

thank you
1.50 OK

[dimkr]

@stripedpajamas The problem was fixed for x64, but ARM builds are done on Debian Buster (2019?) now, instead of Ubuntu 14.04. Microsoft chose to ignore old distros on ARM, and Codium can win extra market share if it's more compatible. (Although the Codium exclusive feature of ARM builds for the latest version, is no longer exclusive :confused: ).