The last big update from MANJARO Plasma KDE 5 to KDE 6 caused Davinci Resolve Studio 18.6 to freeze when starting.
To try to recover all my video editing data, I tried reinstalling MANJARO 24 Plasma KDE6 on a new hard drive. The software crashes upon startup.
The problem comes from a shared library problem.
Other problems, in the latest clean version, it is impossible to install a small graphic clock on the desktop; it does not work.
Sorry, but this new version of KDE is preventing me from working.
Where can we find a version with KDE 5? Or, how can we update these libraries?
Here is the line of code when launching Davinci Resolve Studio from the console:
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_task_set_static_name
The issue was only related to the packaging of the Davinci Resolve application as an AppImage.
A number of libraries shipped with Davinci Resolve are deprecated. When updating MANJARO, the libraries associated with AppImage are updated; As a result, AppImages with encapsulation defects are crashed.
I did a lot of manipulation with FEDORA support (they are the FEDORA people too). I will try to do a tutorial for users of Davinci Resolve under MANJARO.
The GitHub and Reddit sites provide quite a bit of help.
If its an appimage then it Should contain all of its needed libraries.
But this would not be the first time one did not, and I believe I recall davinci resolve specifically is one such example.
I will try to write a tutorial for installing and maintaining Davinci Resolve on MANJARO. It’s not easy, but it’s a good challenge, and it can help.