I’m having a rather frustrating problem. I’m not sure if the issue is the VSCodium AppImage, the AppImageLauncher program, or something else. I swear to you that yesterday all was well but today this app will not run on either my laptop or desktop. I’ve had codium installed on my laptop for months now, running from an AppImage integrated with AppImageLauncher. For some reason when I tried to launch it today nothing happened, checked htop and found no related processes. I tried executing the AppImage from a terminal and got a lengthy response:
$ ./VSCodium-1.60.2-1632356529.glibc2.17-x86_64_ce2cf1cbe05af7a30046e6a674cacc34.AppImage
** (AppImageLauncher:4602): WARNING **: 17:24:21.985: Pixbuf theme: Cannot load pixmap file /usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-2.0/assets/trough-progressbar.png: Failed to load image “/usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-2.0/assets/trough-progressbar.png”: Fatal error in PNG image file: bad parameters to zlib
(AppImageLauncher:4602): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 17:24:21.985: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(AppImageLauncher:4602): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 17:24:21.985: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
** (AppImageLauncher:4602): WARNING **: 17:24:21.985: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
/usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-2.0/assets/trough-progressbar.png,
borders don't fit within the image
(AppImageLauncher:4602): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 17:24:21.985: gdk_pixbuf_get_n_channels: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(AppImageLauncher:4602): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 17:24:21.985: gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels_with_length: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
(AppImageLauncher:4602): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 17:24:21.985: gdk_pixbuf_get_rowstride: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
The last three lines repeat several times and the last output is:
codium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full
The last thing I remember changing about my system was the Qt theme I changed it from “kvantum” to “gtk2” because I recently installed DigiKam and was blinded by the default white appearance. I had used codium with no issue several days after installing DigiKam and making these Qt changes, so this may be a red herring, but I switched reverted my Qt settings anyway. The Codium AppImage still would not launch but I no longer get the GdkPixbuf warnings. Just the symbol lookup error. At first I thought this may be a bug with AppImageLauncher. I opened an issue on their GitHub and was promptly shut down.
I uninstalled AppImageLauncher, deleted any Codium-related files (the AppImage, config files, icons, were all I found), downloaded the latest Codium AppImage release from their GitHub. At this point, when I execute the AppImage I only get the symbol lookup error message. Re-installing AppImageLauncher and launching the AppImage again produces the same GdkPixbuf warnings with some more output:
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 553, resource id: 11060910, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/vscodium.png to "/home/denny/.local/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_vscodium.png"
Extracting usr/share/mime/packages/codium-workspace.xml to "/home/denny/.local/share/mime/packages/appimagekit_9046ca93a33e84c4fb8d990e2e55dae5_codium-workspace.xml"
WARNING: Unable to resize the application icon into a 128x128 image: "Unable to load image.". It will be written unchanged.
WARNING: Unable to resize the application icon into a 256x256 image: "Unable to load image.". It will be written unchanged.
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
which: no gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 in (/home/denny/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/denny/bin)
which: no update-icon-caches in (/home/denny/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/denny/bin)
codium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full
What draws my attention are the two lines starting with WARNING. Something (AIL? A shell script?) was unable to re-size an icon. Perhaps this has something to do with GDK?
I am able to replicate all of these problems exactly on my desktop machine (also running Manjaro XFCE), which has never had VSCodium installed on it but I have used the same “Qt 5 Settings” app to make changes to my Qt theme there. Still not sure if that is related or not…
My current theory is that the Qt settings have something to do with it. Between changing the Qt settings, Codium must have updated itself but the problem did not occur until I restarted the machine several days later. I’m about to file an issue on VSCodium GitHub but first I want to be sure the problem is with that application and not Qt, GTK, or GDK.
I am very lost here. The whole reason I even used the AppImage in the first place instead of building from source was because I thought I could avoid problems like this!
