desktop: Unable to Start After Upgrade to v2.1.0

Description

miroslav@xtigyro-kubuntu:~$ env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/github-desktop_github-desktop.desktop /snap/bin/github-desktop
/snap/github-desktop/63/app/github-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_date_copy

Versions

GitHub Desktop: v2.1.0 Linux RC1
Operating system: Kubuntu 18.04
GLib version: 2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 amd64

root@xtigyro-kubuntu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu# ll /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     26 юни  5 19:47 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.5600.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342072 юни  5 19:47 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.5600.4

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 22
Comments: 54 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I downloaded GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap directly from 2.0.4 release assets and installed it with snap:

snap remove github-desktop
snap install path/to/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic

it worked for me.

+70

liao961120 on Jul 4, 2019

@liao961120 I had to use --dangerous when installing the downloaded version to bypass the lack of signatures.

+32

DivineOmega on Jul 4, 2019

@bear-good Say you’ve downloaded GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap to ~/Downloads. Enter a shell and use these commands.

cd ~/Downloads
snap remove github-desktop
snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic --dangerous

+10

immackay on Aug 27, 2019

@merlinND I am receiving an error when attempting to revert to revision 62.

jordan@jordan-iMac:~$ snap revert --revision=62 github-desktop
error: cannot revert "github-desktop": cannot find revision 62 for snap
       "github-desktop"

+10

DivineOmega on Jul 4, 2019

diff \
    <(unsquashfs -l GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap) \
    <(unsquashfs -l GitHubDesktop-linux-2.1.0-linux1.snap) \
        | sed -n '/x86_64-linux-gnu/s|squashfs-root||p'

Running produces this output.

immackay on Jul 7, 2019

Okay, going to leave this here just for clarity:

Download version 2.0.4 from here (found on the releases page). Assuming you’re using a common browser, this will save the file to ~/Downloads.

You can then uninstall 2.1.0 and install 2.0.4 using the shell commands

cd ~/Downloads
snap remove github-desktop
snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic --dangerous

immackay on Aug 27, 2019

@immackay I use snap install --edge github-desktop,that’s ok it can run.

bear-good on Aug 27, 2019

Okay, going to leave this here just for clarity:

Download version 2.0.4 from here (found on the releases page). Assuming you’re using a common browser, this will save the file to ~/Downloads.

You can then uninstall 2.1.0 and install 2.0.4 using the shell commands
cd ~/Downloads
snap remove github-desktop
snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic --dangerous

That’s one worked for me. Thanks!

ebarracchia on Oct 16, 2019

My problem is solved, thank you.

bear-good on Aug 28, 2019

@liao961120

snap install path/to/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic

error: cannot open: "path/to/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap"

bear-good on Aug 27, 2019

Use AppImage I had no problems with latest version. https://appimage.github.io/GitHubDesktop/

Grendel61 on Sep 6, 2019

@sulkhaniaba did you just copied <path/to/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap> literally?

You have to specify the path of the snap file on your computer, not the path posted abvoe

liao961120 on Jul 6, 2019

@immackay thanks for that helpful script for what’s changed between releases. That will help me trace what changes need to be made when packaging…

shiftkey on Jul 21, 2019

On Fedora 29, I was unable to run the application after an auto-update of the snap to revision 63:

$ snap run github-desktop
/snap/github-desktop/63/app/github-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Reverting to revision 62 did the trick:

$ snap revert --revision=62 github-desktop
github-desktop reverted to 2.0.4-linux1

merlinND on Jul 4, 2019