electron-builder: AppImage files no longer runnable after upgrading to Electron-Builder@23.0.0

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Nvm, I took a stab at it just by reading the error logs. I think it’ll fix it, but as the PR says, I have no idea how to test it. PR https://github.com/develar/app-builder/pull/77

@develar please take a look when you have a chance, that way we can have a proper fix in electron-builder without reverting lzo feature introduction.

Thanks for the updates.

Downgrading to 4.0.0 breaks a bunch of other tests with snaps, I’m still trying to figure out a graceful downgrade.

@Slapbox Would you be willing to open a ticket/issue in the app-builder repo regarding the broken appimage for app-builder-bin 4.0.1? We’ll want to have this tracked there as well as we’re effectively blocked on upgrading to future versions of app-builder-bin.

I’ll downgrade app-builder-bin to 4.0.0, it looks like it may drop snap lzo support though. Oh well…previous functionality shouldn’t be broken.

I think if we can downgrade app-builder-bin to 4.0.0, that might resolve the issue since that predates the compression enum changes I think I’m purely basing it off of the two app-builder-bin releases that were 6mo ago seem to align with the two commits here: https://github.com/develar/app-builder/commits/master

Either that, or we have to rollback to 3.x and hopefully not remove any recently introduced features.

Seconding the slow startup with xz compression, for my app the startup is several orders of magnitude slower with the xz appimage, ~15 seconds to hit application code and a further ~30 seconds to initialise and show the first window instead of around 0.4 seconds for the entire boot up phase to complete using the unpacked linux folder distribution.

@mmaietta yes, this is exactly the issue I’ve been having with #6624, you’re correct.

I think it might be this commit on app-builder-bin? https://github.com/develar/app-builder/commit/c24d1b50fbd313650ccab2021945eb006a39f0ae Commit title has AppImage runtime 13

I honestly don’t know a thing about AppImages

Is there any additional info to the error? Something like this? Squashfs image uses (null) compression, this version supports only xz, zlib.

@mmaietta thanks for your continuing work on this!

I’m sorry to report that using yarn’s resolutions to pin app-builder-bin to 4.1.1 across our project didn’t fix the issue - we still get the message about “please check your FUSE setup.”

Here’s the output of yarn why app-builder-bin, to show that only 4.1.1 is installed:

I can attest that downgrading app-builder-bin to 4.0.0 works:

1. cd node_modules/builder-util
2. npm install app-builder-bin@4.0.0
3. Build your AppImage package

@mmaietta Build fails after applying patch:

  • electron-builder  version=23.0.1 os=4.18.0-15-generic
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • writing effective config  file=build/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • rebuilding native dependencies  dependencies=bufferutil@4.0.6, utf-8-validate@5.0.8 platform=linux arch=x64
  • packaging       platform=linux arch=x64 electron=13.6.9 appOutDir=build/linux-unpacked
  • building        target=AppImage arch=x64 file=build/lx-music-desktop v1.18.0 x64.AppImage
  ⨯ enum value must be one of xz,gzip, got 'zlib'  
  ⨯ /home/user/app/lxm/node_modules/app-builder-bin/linux/x64/app-builder process failed ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE

packager.compression is normal

Same problem in v23.0.1 System: Ubuntu 18.10

Alert link: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE