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Hello.
Today, I updated my Nextcloud linux desktop client appimage to 4.0.5. The new version cannot start. When trying to launch the client in a linux terminal, I get the following error :
./Nextcloud-4.0.5-x86_64.AppImage: symbol lookup error: /tmp/.mount_NextclPHpGcK/usr/bin/../lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_string_copy
The previous version 4.0.4 still starts without issue.
I am using linux mint debian edition 7. All updates have been applied.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution for the AppImage issue, since I’m using Arch, btw and therfore always get the latest client in a timely manner from the official repositories, and I already received version 4.0.5, which is working fine.
For those of you using (X)ubuntu, you might want to use the PPA instead of the AppImage, so the client is updated automatically to the latest version via the regular system updates. That’s what I used back when I was still on Ubuntu: Desktop client : “Nextcloud development” team
By the way, there are already three bug reports on GitHub, all right next to each other, so it definitely seems to be a widespread issue, both the actual problem itself and the fact that people apparently don’t even look at the existing issues at the top of the list before opening a new one.
I’d say the best options for now are to roll back to the previous version and wait until the issue is fixed, or switch to the PPA or another source.
Same issue with Nextcloud 4.0.6 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS/Gnome. The process is launched but the synchronization is not working and the icon is not displayed. Back to Nextcloud 4.0.4.
Just updated from 4.0.4 to 4.0.6 on Linux Mint 23.3. The AppImage still crashes, but with a new error message:
Failed to initialize instances shared memory: “QSharedMemory::handle: doesn’t exist”
XIO: fatal IO error 17 (Die Datei existiert bereits) on X server “:0”
after 470 requests (470 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I can confirm the same error. With the first App-Image Instance it shows “The X11 connection broke: No error (code 0)” the second round one runs the App-Image it shows exactly what you reported with “XIO: fatal IO error 17 (Die Datei existiert bereits) on X server “:0”
after 459 requests (459 known processed) with 0 events remaining”.
Clearing the config folder in that sense that I renamed it to backup just to check if that was it, doesn’t help here either.
Would love to get it going again, if someone can point in the right direction here?
and therfore always get the latest client in a timely manner from the official repositories, and I already received version 4.0.5, which is working fine.