Joplin-desktop don't start

[ghost]

Today, i just update joplin to a new version and joplin-desktop just don't start.

Environment

Joplin version: joplin 1.7.0 (prod)
Joplin-desktop version: joplin-1.7.10-1 and joplin-1.7.11-2 both have this problem
Platform: linux
OS specifics: arch linux

Steps to reproduce

1. Type 'joplin-desktop' to terminal
2. See the hang

Describe what you expected to happen

Seeing joplin desktop start with all my notes

Logfile

Joplin don't start and no log is written

[ghost]

Sometime, joplin-desktop start and look like this.

[roman-r-m]

When you get a blank window, can you open dev console (should be under the "Help" menu) and see if there are any errors

[ghost]

Here is what i got when open joplin with joplin-desktop --open-dev-tools --debug --log-level debug

It seem that joplin don't open the first time i type the command and always open the second time i type the command with blank windows. And here is the error:

[roman-r-m]

What's in the console tab?

[ghost]

Here:

[hubitor]

Joplin does not start (again...)

This is what I get, when I try to start it in the terminal:

$ joplin-desktop --open-dev-tools --debug --log-level debug
./@joplinapp-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[CalebJohn]

@38569459 @hubitor

How did you install Joplin?

[ghost]

I install joplin by AUR, i also try to download the appimage file and run it but joplin still don't start

[MCWertGaming]

I have the same error here on archlinux. I have tried to install the programm with both the AUR packages (jublin-desktop wich just extracts the debian package and re-packages it as an archlinux package, juplin-appimage which is just the appimage), the appimage as standalone and the shell installer wich uses the appimage as well and all have the same error as described here. Also I get a slightly different error in the development console:

[MCWertGaming]

This seems to be the line:

in this file

This https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/app-desktop/main-html.js#L13

[tessus]

This is from the Joplin README:

Unsupported methods:

An Arch Linux package is available here. To install it, use an AUR wrapper such as yay: yay -S joplin. Both the CLI tool (type joplin) and desktop app (type joplin-desktop) are packaged. You can also install a compiled version with the chaotic-aur repository. For support, please go to the GitHub repo. If you are interested in pre-release you have joplin-beta

[MCWertGaming]

Well yes, but the official appimage and install script is not working either and those are supported options.

Also I think that this problem is not caused by the packaging. I mean the appimage provides all dependencies itself so there shouldn't be a problem. I think that this is the same problem as dicussed here nodejs/node/issues/33741. It look likes require() is not a client side function so js has no reference because it's not provided. But as I'm not a web developer i can just note what i found.
Also is this issue just on archlinux, or also on other distibutions?

[roman-r-m]

Also is this issue just on archlinux, or also on other distibutions?

Ok for me on Mint

[MCWertGaming]

The version 1.8.1 (pre-release) has the following error:

[roman-r-m]

From a quick search looks like it can occur when /tmp is mounted as noexec

[hubitor]

@CalebJohn with joplin-desktop package from the AUR.

[miDeb]

What's the error printed in the console when running joplin-desktop? If it complains about icu68, try installing icu68 from the AUR to check if it fixes the issue. (That was the case for me)

[amiablechief]

Joplin-desktop started working for me again after installing aur/icu68

[zuntik]

For me, after waiting a substantial number of minutes, aur/icu68 installation failed. The package build process had errors. :(
Any suggestions?

[amiablechief]

Can you try again and share error output? Difficult to tell without taking a look.

[ghost]

For me, running joplin-desktop print nothing on terminal but after I install icu68 from AUR, joplin-desktop works again. This can be a workaround until the problem is fixed.

[ghost]

After some testing, 1.7.11 install from AUR don't work, 1.6.8, 1.7.11 and 1.8.1 appimage work as expect after install icu68 from AUR.

[amiablechief]

I prefer to stay away from appimages, but that's not surprising given an appimage will bundle the executable and all its dependencies into 1 package. It never has to reach out into the installed library infrastructure of your OS.

[ghost]

In this case, it does. Appimage only work after i install icu68, so maybe they should package icu into the appimage?

[hubitor]

@miDeb Thanks! That did the trick!

[banan314]

It doesn't start for me on Windows as well. I installed 1.8.1, which solved the issue.

[ghost]

I added contextIsolation: false, to line 91 in file joplin-1.8.1/packages/app-desktop/ElectronAppWrapper.ts, build the app and it works again. Need others to confirm this fix.

[michaldybczak]

It works for me on Manjaro testing from AUR:
joplin-desktop 1.7.13-3 and the previous versions work fine, no issues
icu 68 is installed

[laurent22]

This is the wrong forum to discuss this, since we don't maintain the AUR package. Please report this to the AUR package maintainer.

[ghost]

So how about the AppImage that also don't working? You do maintain the AppImage, right?

[laurent22]

The top post is about the AUR package, not the AppImage. If you have clear steps to replicate an issue with the AppImage, then feel free to open a new bug report about this.

[Vinicius-ufsc]

worked for me:

sudo apt install libfuse2

try to open again, if it does not open,
try to open the Joplin using the Appimage from the site
Joplin-2.8.8.AppImage

[modrozd]

For me also worked:

sudo apt install libfuse2

It's worth mentioning that I have a fresh Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS install and here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/ukj2dq/what_is_fuse/
is mentioned that libfuse2 is needed when having a fresh install to use AppImage, which is how I installed Joplin.