AppImage doesn't open anymore.

[nixravette]

Whenever I run the AppImage, nothing happens. It was working fine a few days ago, then one day this week it just stopped. Tried it on multiple computers, even had a friend download it on his and had the same problem.

[wyyadd]

Hi @nixravette
Could you run the AppImage lala through command line and check the outputs?

[nixravette]

Hi @nixravette Could you run the AppImage lala through command line and check the outputs?

I got the same result on both devices.

Gtk-Message: 20:58:09.969: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 20:58:09.970: Failed to load module "window-decorations-gtk-module"

(LaLa:73476): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:58:10.022: Could not load a pixbuf from /org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/window-minimize-symbolic.symbolic.png.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/image-missing.png: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/image-missing.png: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
Aborted (core dumped)

[wyyadd]

This is an AppImage related issue. AppImage fails if the pixbuf loaders/mime database missing.
I found some useful articles to solve this problem.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1351607/gtk-warning-could-not-load-a-pixbuf-from-icon-theme
bottlesdevs/Bottles#590
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261143
bottlesdevs/Bottles#230
There are many problems with appImage and you can try flatpak LaLa.

[nixravette]

Got it working again with help from a friend running this in the location of the AppImage.

export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
./LaLa_linux_amd64.AppImage

[wyyadd]

I am so happy to hear that. Have fun!