Novelwriter appimage won't start on Arch based distro

[mogplus88]

As the heading says. I'm looking at changing over to CachyOS as it is orders of magnitude faster than my current install, but I can't get NW to start. It keeps telling me that fuse: memory allocation failed. I also can't extract the binary from the appimage with the --appimage-extract option, it returns this doesn't look like a squachfs file error.

This seems to be a fairly common problem around the traps, not only NW and not only Arch. NW appimage works fine on my Fedora based linux (Aurora) and Mint, and I have other appimages working fine in CachyOS, so it seems to be to do with running NW on Arch. Just wondering if anybody else is having this problem, and if so did you fix it, and if so, how?

I've tried all the solutions I could find in other posts about this problem (although none involved NW) and nothing has worked.

All advice gratefully received.

[vkbo]

Yeah, it's a know issue with Fuse. Did you try anything from here? https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE

[vkbo]

There's also some info on the install help page for novelWriter, but it's not for your exact issue. However, if you find the solution, please post it here so I can add it: https://novelwriter.io/download/install_linux.html#appimage-releases

[mogplus88]

Thanks for the reply. Tried the Arch options but to no avail. I'll keep trying.

:-\

[mogplus88]

Well, it's now working, but I don't know what I did to fix it. I tried all sorts of stuff I found in various posts, mostly on the CachyOS forum, and none of them did anything, until I rebooted. So presumably something's worked but a reboot was required to activate it.

Installing fuse2 seems to be a common suggestion, and python-fuse.

Some posts suggest installing appimagelauncher. I tried it but I didn't like it. I've used Gearlever to manage appimages on other distros and it works very well. Whether or not it installs anything that helps run appimages I don't know, but maybe?... Could be worth a shot.

But you're right, it seems to be a very common problem. Hopefully it will get resolved. It should be as fuse is apparently required to run any appimage.

;-) Ian

[vkbo]

It was likely the fuse upgrade. I expect it runs as a service, so a reboot would be required.

[mogplus88]

I expect you are right. ;-)