wavebox crashing on Arch Linux - SEGV

[jghodd]

• Wavebox Version: 3.14.*
• Operating System & Version: Arch Linux
• (Linux only) Install method: AUR
• Account type (if applicable): Gmail

Expected & actual behavior
Version 3.14.7 was working until recently. Then it and version 3.14.7 are now showing the same problem. This is the output from strace:

stat("/etc/gnutls/default-priorities", 0x7fff32135040) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_ACCERR, si_addr=0xa48a30} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Steps to reproduce
Just run it on the command line.

Is the bug persistent or intermittent?
Persistent

[jghodd]

wavebox.strace.log

Attached is the entire strace log.

[Thomas101]

Hi, thanks for reporting. It looks like a bug with glibc-2.28-1 which is breaking all electron based apps (slack, vscode, etc...). (More info electron/electron#13972).

The arch maintainers have patched it (https://github.com/felixonmars/archlinux-packages/commit/caa929b5a62f8e0b54d60b9f642f97519dc71a53) but as far as I can see it's not been released yet. There's some discussion around hacky workarounds on reddit for mailspring and slack which involves re-linking the old glibc.

I'll have a look to see if there's anything we can do in the short term until the patch for glibc goes out

[jghodd]

Thanks, Thomas. No, arch is still on glibc-2.28-1, but v2.28-4 is currently in testing. The patch is included in the 2.28-4 build bundle, so the next release of glibc should fix it. I did discover that wavebox-3.14.6 is still working, so I'll stick with that version until glibc-2.28-4 is released.

Cheers

[jghodd]

I can confirm that glibc-2.28-4 does in fact resolve this issue. I went ahead and installed it from the arch testing repository and upgraded wavebox to 3.14.10 and everything came up as expected.

[Thomas101]

glibc-2.28-4 should be in the main repository now :)