Appimage 3.6.2 for Linux fails to start

[fred.fredex]

This worked just 2 or 3 days ago. Then I ran dnf updates (Rocky Linux 9.4) yesterday, and today the Appimage fails to start, giving this error:

$ /home/fredex/Downloads/audacity-linux-3.6.2-x64.AppImage
/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0
/lib64/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0
/lib64/libcairo-gobject.so.2
/lib64/libcairo.so.2
/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/jack/libjack.so.0
/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0
findlib: libportaudio.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/fredex/Downloads/audacity-linux-3.6.2-x64.AppImage: Using fallback for library ‘libportaudio.so’
/tmp/.mount_audacia7U9BG/bin/audacity: /tmp/.mount_audacia7U9BG/lib/libselinux.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_audacia7U9BG/bin/audacity: /tmp/.mount_audacia7U9BG/lib/libmount.so.1: version `MOUNT_2_40’ not found (required by /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0)

3.6.1 and 3.6.0 now give the same error.

“sudo dnf list available | grep -i libportaudio.so” reports no such file available.

Anyone have any good ideas on this one?

Thanks in advance!

fred.fredex

[steve]

It could be this bug: Audacity 3.6.2 AppImage fails to launch unless previous configuration already exists. · Issue #7264 · audacity/audacity · GitHub

If that’s it, then it is possible to work around the bug using GNOME System Monitor or another Task Manager to kill the process “audacity --host xxxxx” (where “xxxxx” is a number).

After Audacity has launched successfully once, it should launch without the work around.

[fred.fredex]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Unfortunately it isn’t working for me. there is no audacity still running, because it exits after spewing the errors I showed. Therefore, the next time I try to start it I get the same thing all over again.

I think it is a different bug, because I’m getting additional errors after the list of .SOs. I also tried deleting audacity.cfg, to no avail.

Curiously, if I copy the appimage over to an ancient laptop running Ubuntu Mate 22.04, it spews the same errors, but then the program starts up and runs. Go figure!

Fred

[fred.fredex]

Trying 3.6.3 doesn’t help either,… same result.

Fred