Linux AppImage Crash

[fuguesoft]

Edit: From 0hypercube on the Discord

The binaries contained in the AppImage need to be compiled on a system not newer than the oldest base system that the AppImage is intended to run on.
https://docs.appimage.org/reference/best-practices.html#general-recommendations

I assume it was compiled on a modern rolling release system.

/endquote

Edit 2:
Another person smarter than I thinks it's glibc related.

AppImages are tied to the glibc version of the host system they were made on
And glibc isn't backwards compatible (for obvious reasons)
Flatpaks get around this by using their own glibc
Usually bundled with the Freedesktop SDK
So while people like to shit on Flatpak for extra dependencies, Flatpaks will actually work on any system regardless of glibc version (or even presence of glibc)

-- Maryam (erindale.xyz)

issue-graphie-desktop-install

I've seen a few users having issues with the AppImage package on Linux.
I'm hoping this issue can be a catch-all for any reports that fit.
Here's mine:

Specs

[x] Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13.0 (trixie)
[x] Desktop Environment: sway/WM
[x] Terminal Emulator: foot
[x] Shell: fish 4.0.2

Description

AppImage fails to run. Really excited about this project. Thanks for making it!

Steps to reproduce

1. Download and extract .AppImage binary
2. chmod +x Graphite.AppImage
3. mv Graphite.AppImage ~/.local/bin/
4. Graphite.AppImage

Expected behavior

The app launches without failure.

Screenshots

Logs

RUST_LOG=trace ~/.local/bin/Graphite.AppImage

2025-12-30T18:38:48.440415Z INFO graphite_desktop: Acquired application lock
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448126Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448180Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_xlib_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448183Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_xcb_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448188Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_wayland_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448194Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448199Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_direct_mode_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448203Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448207Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_physical_device_drm
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448210Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_get_display_properties2
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448213Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448217Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
2025-12-30T18:38:48.448862Z DEBUG wgpu_core::instance: Instance::new: failed to create Vulkan backend: InstanceError { message: "Entry::create_instance() failed", source: Some(ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER) }
2025-12-30T18:38:48.449345Z TRACE wgpu_core::instance: Instance::new: backend Gl not requested
2025-12-30T18:38:48.449533Z TRACE wgpu_core::instance: Instance::enumerate_adapters
2025-12-30T18:38:48.450090Z TRACE wgpu_core::global: Global::drop

Available WGPU adapters:

2025-12-30T18:38:48.452375Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452386Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_xlib_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452389Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_xcb_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452393Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_wayland_surface
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452396Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452399Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_direct_mode_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452403Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_display
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452405Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_physical_device_drm
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452408Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_get_display_properties2
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452411Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace
2025-12-30T18:38:48.452414Z WARN wgpu_hal::vulkan::instance: Unable to find extension: VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
2025-12-30T18:38:48.453131Z DEBUG wgpu_core::instance: Instance::new: failed to create Vulkan backend: InstanceError { message: "Entry::create_instance() failed", source: Some(ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER) }
2025-12-30T18:38:48.453141Z TRACE wgpu_core::instance: Instance::new: backend Gl not requested
2025-12-30T18:38:48.453147Z TRACE wgpu_core::instance: Instance::request_adapter
2025-12-30T18:38:48.453150Z DEBUG wgpu_core::instance: Request adapter didn't find compatible adapters.
2025-12-30T18:38:48.453348Z TRACE wgpu_core::global: Global::drop

thread 'main' (852740) panicked at desktop/src/gpu_context.rs:17:6:
Failed to create WGPU context
stack backtrace:
0: 0x55cf61f2c9cb -
1: 0x55cf606b4f7f -
2: 0x55cf61f475fd -
3: 0x55cf61f28c63 -
4: 0x55cf61f41ba2 -
5: 0x55cf61f41a82 -
6: 0x55cf61f41d51 -
7: 0x55cf61f29a0a -
8: 0x55cf61f28d79 -
9: 0x55cf61f3dcbd -
10: 0x55cf603ce0e0 -
11: 0x55cf603cd9db -
12: 0x55cf6097b3bd -
13: 0x55cf60915b97 -
14: 0x55cf60948130 -
15: 0x55cf608ae3b3 -
16: 0x55cf608ae3a9 -
17: 0x55cf61f3f166 -
18: 0x55cf608ae40c -
19: 0x7fa64962a4d8 - __libc_start_call_main
20: 0x7fa64962a59b - __libc_start_main_alias_1
21: 0x55cf605afa25 -
22: 0x0 -

vulkaninfo --summary

==========
VULKANINFO

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.4.309

Instance Extensions: count = 24

VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_debug_report : extension revision 10
VK_EXT_debug_utils : extension revision 2
VK_EXT_direct_mode_display : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_display_surface_counter : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_headless_surface : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1 : extension revision 1
VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace : extension revision 5
VK_KHR_device_group_creation : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_display : extension revision 23
VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 : extension revision 2
VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_portability_enumeration : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_surface : extension revision 25
VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities : extension revision 1
VK_KHR_wayland_surface : extension revision 6
VK_KHR_xcb_surface : extension revision 6
VK_KHR_xlib_surface : extension revision 6
VK_LUNARG_direct_driver_loading : extension revision 1

Instance Layers: count = 3

VK_LAYER_INTEL_nullhw INTEL NULL HW 1.1.73 version 1
VK_LAYER_MESA_device_select Linux device selection layer 1.4.303 version 1
VK_LAYER_MESA_overlay Mesa Overlay layer 1.4.303 version 1

Devices:

GPU0:
apiVersion = 1.4.305
driverVersion = 25.0.7
vendorID = 0x1002
deviceID = 0x15bf
deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_INTEGRATED_GPU
deviceName = AMD Radeon 780M (RADV PHOENIX)
driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV
driverName = radv
driverInfo = Mesa 25.0.7-2
conformanceVersion = 1.4.0.0
deviceUUID = 00000000-c100-0000-0000-000000000000
driverUUID = 414d442d-4d45-5341-2d44-525600000000
GPU1:
apiVersion = 1.4.305
driverVersion = 0.0.1
vendorID = 0x10005
deviceID = 0x0000
deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU
deviceName = llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)
driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_LLVMPIPE
driverName = llvmpipe
driverInfo = Mesa 25.0.7-2 (LLVM 19.1.7)
conformanceVersion = 1.3.1.1
deviceUUID = 6d657361-3235-2e30-2e37-2d3200000000
driverUUID = 6c6c766d-7069-7065-5555-494400000000

[fuguesoft]

I've since been told try compiling. I followed the instructions on the website and ran into some kind of issue there as well.

Git, Rust and Node.js are all installed. I'd already cloned down the repository.

I ran the following all within the root directory of the project:

cargo install cargo-watch
cargo install wasm-pack
cargo install -f wasm-bindgen-cli@0.2.100

npm run build-desktop
cargo run -p graphite-desktop-bundle -- open

The first time I ran this, I was informed I needed cargo-about installed to generate the something something... So I installed that:

cargo install cargo-about

Then I tried running the building commands once more:

npm run build-desktop
cargo run -p graphite-desktop-bundle -- open

I got the following output:

Available WGPU adapters:
[0] Vulkan IntegratedGpu (Name: AMD Radeon 780M (RADV PHOENIX), Driver: radv, Device: 5567)
[1] Vulkan Cpu (Name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits), Driver: llvmpipe, Device: 0)
[2] Gl Other (Name: AMD Radeon 780M (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.12.57+deb13-amd64), Driver: , Device: 0)

Using WGPU adapter: AdapterInfo { name: "AMD Radeon 780M (RADV PHOENIX)", vendor: 4098, device: 5567, device_type: IntegratedGpu, driver: "radv", driver_info: "Mesa 25.0.7-2", backend: Vulkan }
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: File not found
[2206675:2206709:1230/152954.598620:ERROR:mojo/public/cpp/bindings/lib/interface_endpoint_client.cc:732] Message 6 rejected by interface blink.mojom.WidgetHost
[2206675:2206709:1230/152954.598653:ERROR:mojo/public/cpp/bindings/lib/interface_endpoint_client.cc:732] Message 7 rejected by interface blink.mojom.WidgetHost
[2206675:2206718:1230/152954.669735:ERROR:crypto/nss_util.cc:346] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
[2206675:2206721:1230/152956.886006:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2206675:2206721:1230/153025.385225:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2206675:2206721:1230/153107.266775:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2206675:2206721:1230/153233.950258:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
Warning: maxDynamicUniformBuffersPerPipelineLayout artificially reduced from 1000000 to 16 to fit dynamic offset allocation limit.
Warning: maxDynamicStorageBuffersPerPipelineLayout artificially reduced from 1000000 to 16 to fit dynamic offset allocation limit.
[2228402:2228402:1230/153254.536566:ERROR:services/on_device_model/ml/gpu_blocklist.cc:123] Unable to get gpu adapter
[2228402:2228407:1230/153254.538124:ERROR:services/on_device_model/ml/gpu_blocklist.cc:123] Unable to get gpu adapter
[2206675:2206721:1230/153605.265029:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2206675:2206721:1230/154315.679632:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

An app window opened that my window manager recognizes as Graphite. However, it seems to return a 404:

Translation:
Couldn't find the page (resources)

Could not find any webpage with the address resources://resources
HTTP Error 404

[Reload]

E: Got the app to compile after completing all the previous steps and then running the following:

npm run start-desktop

[fuguesoft]

Got the app to compile after completing all the previous steps and then running the following:

npm run start-desktop

Output:

dist/assets/SourceSansPro-Bold.ttf--6c9oR8J.woff2 76.86 kB
dist/assets/SourceSansPro-Regular.ttf-DZLUzqI4.woff2 77.66 kB
dist/assets/graphite_wasm_bg-DnakQun7.wasm 22,798.84 kB
dist/assets/index-G45-UvKp.css 89.97 kB │ gzip: 14.12 kB
dist/assets/index-DBbhaQcw.js 600.80 kB │ gzip: 157.26 kB

(!) Some chunks are larger than 500 kB after minification. Consider:

• Using dynamic import() to code-split the application
• Use build.rollupOptions.output.manualChunks to improve chunking: https://rollupjs.org/configuration-options/#output-manualchunks
• Adjust chunk size limit for this warning via build.chunkSizeWarningLimit.
  ✓ built in 3.57s
  Compiling ring v0.17.14
  Compiling rustls v0.23.31
  Compiling rustls-webpki v0.103.4
  Compiling ureq v3.1.0
  Compiling download-cef v2.2.0
  Compiling cef-dll-sys v142.5.0+142.0.17
  Compiling graphite-desktop-bundle v0.0.0 (/home/fugue/aplicaciónes/oss/Graphite/desktop/bundle)
  warning: constant APP_NAME is never used
  --> desktop/bundle/src/common.rs:6:18
  |
  6 | pub(crate) const APP_NAME: &str = "Graphite";
  | ^^^^^^^^
  |
  = note: #[warn(dead_code)] (part of #[warn(unused)]) on by default

warning: function cef_path is never used
--> desktop/bundle/src/common.rs:25:15
|
25 | pub(crate) fn cef_path() -> PathBuf {
| ^^^^^^^^

warning: function clean_dir is never used
--> desktop/bundle/src/common.rs:53:15
|
53 | pub(crate) fn clean_dir(dir: &Path) {
| ^^^^^^^^^

warning: function copy_dir is never used
--> desktop/bundle/src/common.rs:60:15
|
60 | pub(crate) fn copy_dir(src: &Path, dst: &Path) {
| ^^^^^^^^

warning: graphite-desktop-bundle (bin "graphite-desktop-bundle") generated 4 warnings
Finished dev profile [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 5.18s
Running /home/fugue/aplicaciónes/oss/Graphite/target/debug/graphite-desktop-bundle open
Compiling ring v0.17.14
Compiling graphite-desktop-embedded-resources v0.1.0 (/home/fugue/aplicaciónes/oss/Graphite/desktop/embedded-resources)
Compiling rustls v0.23.31
Compiling rustls-webpki v0.103.4
Compiling ureq v3.1.0
Compiling download-cef v2.2.0
Compiling cef-dll-sys v142.5.0+142.0.17
Compiling cef v142.5.0+142.0.17
Compiling graphite-desktop v0.1.0 (/home/fugue/aplicaciónes/oss/Graphite/desktop)
Compiling graphite-desktop-platform-linux v0.0.0 (/home/fugue/aplicaciónes/oss/Graphite/desktop/platform/linux)
Finished dev profile [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 13.99s

Available WGPU adapters:
[0] Vulkan IntegratedGpu (Name: AMD Radeon 780M (RADV PHOENIX), Driver: radv, Device: 5567)
[1] Vulkan Cpu (Name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits), Driver: llvmpipe, Device: 0)
[2] Gl Other (Name: AMD Radeon 780M (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.12.57+deb13-amd64), Driver: , Device: 0)

Using WGPU adapter: AdapterInfo { name: "AMD Radeon 780M (RADV PHOENIX)", vendor: 4098, device: 5567, device_type: IntegratedGpu, driver: "radv", driver_info: "Mesa 25.0.7-2", backend: Vulkan }
[2630646:2630688:1230/162426.872473:ERROR:crypto/nss_util.cc:346] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
[2630646:2630691:1230/162428.963010:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2630646:2630691:1230/162429.029883:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/mcs_client.cc:700] Error code: 401 Error message: Authentication Failed: wrong_secret
[2630646:2630691:1230/162429.029944:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/mcs_client.cc:702] Failed to log in to GCM, resetting connection.
[2630646:2630691:1230/162449.703440:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2630646:2630691:1230/162548.075181:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
Warning: maxDynamicUniformBuffersPerPipelineLayout artificially reduced from 1000000 to 16 to fit dynamic offset allocation limit.
Warning: maxDynamicStorageBuffersPerPipelineLayout artificially reduced from 1000000 to 16 to fit dynamic offset allocation limit.
[2652777:2652777:1230/162726.743032:ERROR:services/on_device_model/ml/gpu_blocklist.cc:123] Unable to get gpu adapter
[2652777:2652782:1230/162726.745226:ERROR:services/on_device_model/ml/gpu_blocklist.cc:123] Unable to get gpu adapter
[2630646:2630691:1230/162726.760756:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2630646:2630691:1230/163116.413064:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

https://0x0.st/P-T8.mp4

[daniil-loban]

npm run start-desktop

...
    Finished `dev` profile [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 8m 00s

Available WGPU adapters:
[0] Vulkan IntegratedGpu (Name: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR), Driver: radv, Device: 5688)
[1] Vulkan DiscreteGpu (Name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, Driver: NVIDIA, Device: 9632)
[2] Vulkan Cpu (Name: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.8, 256 bits), Driver: llvmpipe, Device: 0)
[3] Gl Other (Name: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.17.0-8-generic), Driver: , Device: 0)

Using WGPU adapter: AdapterInfo { name: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU", vendor: 4318, device: 9632, device_type: DiscreteGpu, driver: "NVIDIA", driver_info: "580.95.05", backend: Vulkan }
[190066:190066:1231/104446.969649:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/shared_image/shared_image_representation.cc:408] Unable to initialize SkSurface
[190066:190066:1231/104446.975502:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/shared_image/shared_image_representation.cc:408] Unable to initialize SkSurface
[190066:190066:1231/104447.154939:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/shared_image/shared_image_representation.cc:408] Unable to initialize SkSurface
[190066:190066:1231/104447.160395:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/shared_image/shared_image_representation.cc:408] Unable to initialize SkSurface
[190066:190066:1231/104447.192851:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/shared_image/shared_image_representation.cc:408] Unable to initialize SkSurface
[189990:190042:1231/104450.018549:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[189990:190042:1231/104518.318647:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[189990:190042:1231/104601.754463:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

[fuguesoft]

This is what got the build working for me:

Graphite Build Instructions

Taken mostly from the website and with help from 0hypercube on the Discord

Required:
Node.js
Rust
Git

Install cargo packages:

cargo install cargo-watch
cargo install wasm-pack
cargo install -f wasm-bindgem-cli@0.2.100

# you may or may not need this
cargo install cargo-about

This is supposed to be all you need to run it on a modern system:

cd path/to/cloned/repository/
npm run build-desktop
cargo run -p graphite-desktop-bundle -- open

However at this stage, it failed to launch for me so I had to run this last:

npm run start-desktop

[0HyperCube]

@daniil-loban you have a different error. It seems to be the same as this electron issue electron/electron#49247 (which claims it is related to NVidea GPU)

Could you please try

GRAPHITE_WGPU_ADAPTER=0 cargo run -p graphite-desktop-bundle -- open

This should run it on the AMD integrated graphics. If this works then it would seem to be an issue with the NVidea.