Linux CPU AppImage fails to start with FUSE errors

[OddZero]

Hey! Thanks for the great application :]

When starting the CPU AppImage on my system (Arch Linux, kernel 6.16.1-zen) the application fails to launch. When starting it from the CLI, this is the output I got when launching it

╰─$ ./WhisperGUI-cpu-x86_64_e884caae0f857ebcfdc42a9bf3b83f66.AppImage

fuse: memory allocation failed
squashfuse 0.5.2 (c) 2012 Dave Vasilevsky

Usage: squashfuse [options] ARCHIVE MOUNTPOINT

(null) options:
    -o offset=N            offset N bytes into ARCHIVE to mount
    -o subdir=PATH         mount subdirectory PATH of ARCHIVE
    -o notify_pipe=PATH    named pipe that will receive 's' (success)
                           or 'f' (failure) when the mountpoint is ready
    -o timeout=N           idle N seconds for automatic unmount
    -o uid=N               set file owner to uid N
    -o gid=N               set file group to gid N

FUSE options:
    -h   --help            print help
    -V   --version         print version
    -d   -o debug          enable debug output (implies -f)
    -f                     foreground operation
    -s                     disable multi-threaded operation
    -o clone_fd            use separate fuse device fd for each thread
                           (may improve performance)
    -o max_idle_threads    the maximum number of idle worker threads
                           allowed (default: -1)
    -o max_threads         the maximum number of worker threads
                           allowed (default: 10)
fuse: memory allocation failed
squashfuse 0.5.2 (c) 2012 Dave Vasilevsky

Usage: squashfuse [options] ARCHIVE MOUNTPOINT

(null) options:
    -o offset=N            offset N bytes into ARCHIVE to mount
    -o subdir=PATH         mount subdirectory PATH of ARCHIVE
    -o notify_pipe=PATH    named pipe that will receive 's' (success)
                           or 'f' (failure) when the mountpoint is ready
    -o timeout=N           idle N seconds for automatic unmount
    -o uid=N               set file owner to uid N
    -o gid=N               set file group to gid N

FUSE options:
    -h   --help            print help
    -V   --version         print version
    -d   -o debug          enable debug output (implies -f)
    -f                     foreground operation
    -s                     disable multi-threaded operation
    -o clone_fd            use separate fuse device fd for each thread
                           (may improve performance)
    -o max_idle_threads    the maximum number of idle worker threads
                           allowed (default: -1)
    -o max_threads         the maximum number of worker threads
                           allowed (default: 10)
squashfuse 0.5.2 (c) 2012 Dave Vasilevsky

Usage: squashfuse [options] ARCHIVE MOUNTPOINT

(null) options:
    -o offset=N            offset N bytes into ARCHIVE to mount
    -o subdir=PATH         mount subdirectory PATH of ARCHIVE
    -o notify_pipe=PATH    named pipe that will receive 's' (success)
                           or 'f' (failure) when the mountpoint is ready
    -o timeout=N           idle N seconds for automatic unmount
    -o uid=N               set file owner to uid N
    -o gid=N               set file group to gid N

FUSE options:
    -h   --help            print help
    -V   --version         print version
    -d   -o debug          enable debug output (implies -f)
    -f                     foreground operation
    -s                     disable multi-threaded operation
    -o clone_fd            use separate fuse device fd for each thread
                           (may improve performance)
    -o max_idle_threads    the maximum number of idle worker threads
                           allowed (default: -1)
    -o max_threads         the maximum number of worker threads
                           allowed (default: 10)
Can't open squashfs image: Bad address

Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
for more information
execv error: No such file or directory

I regularly run many other AppImage programs, so I guess it's probably something specific to whisper-gui.

The fact that the squashfuse's usage message appears makes me think that command may be called at some point, but with incorrect parameters?

Let me know if I can help further, and thanks again!

[Pikurrot]

Hi, sorry for the late response.
I think my AppImage uses some libfuse that your Arch Linux does not have. Maybe try installing it with:

sudo pacman -S fuse2
# or
yay -S libfuse2
# or
paru -S libfuse2

Whichever works for you. Then rerun the AppImage. Let me know if this helps! :)

[OddZero]

Hi! And thanks for responding :]

I have fuse2 installed already on my computer, so that unfortunately doesn't help.

Any other ideas?

[Pikurrot]

Maybe you can try bypassing fuse when running:

APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 ./WhisperGUI-*.AppImage

I hope this solves it for now. Anyway, I will try to make the AppImage more robust for the next release 😃.

[OddZero]

Hey!

Apologies for taking forever to respond — I just didn't pay too much attention to GitHub notifications!

Anyway, I tried using APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1, but got this error:

This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
Failed to extract AppImage

So still nothing for now...

Let's see how it goes with the next release!

Thanks again for all your help :]

edit: I had a line about the source of the issue potentially being me using appimagelauncher, but I found it's unrelated, so removed that (: