Building Projects: [Ubuntu] Can't run or build an appimage if using Archlinux as the OS

[gm-bug-reporter[bot]]

Description

i have installed latest linuxdeploy, but running it via gamemaker tools shows this error: This doesn't look like a squashfs image. Failed to open squashfs image

on the other hand building a zip works fine

Steps To Reproduce

1. install linuxdeploy-appimage onto arch linux (there's an AUR package, which is latest), also install zip and unzip (in default pacman repositories)
2. install latest gamemaker-beta from the actual, real download links we offer every release, not an unsupported third-party package repository
3. grab a working project
4. press Run (F5) and see it fail to build
5. Build - Create Executable (F8) and create an AppImage Bundle - also fails
6. Build - Create Executable (F8) and create a Compressed Application zip - that works, and you can run the game after unzipping

Which version of GameMaker are you reporting this issue for?

IDE v2024.600.0.576 Runtime v2024.600.0.602

Which operating system(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Linux Linux kernel 6.9.5.1

Which platform(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Ubuntu

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[SunCatMC]

here's my github btw, so you can ask me questions

[SunCatMC]

after reading the official guide for ubuntu i installed appimagetool, but that did nothing to remedy the issue

[SunCatMC]

sorry for bold test in the report, i didn't know my triple dashes would affect formatting this way

[SunCatMC]

checksfinder log.txt forgot to submit the compiler log

[YYDan]

Fixed your repo steps ;)

Note that Arch is not officially supported by us, so we're unlikely to repeat those steps anyway - however, if we can determine the cause then it will be fixed as per usual.

[YYDan]

Note that a duplicate/"part 2" issue was made, using the 605 runtime released yesterday. The info from that one is:

I updated gm, decided to compile my project on new version, but it failed

System.ArgumentException: Offset and length were out of bounds for the array or count is greater than the number of elements from index to the end of the source collection.
   at System.Buffer.BlockCopy(Array src, Int32 srcOffset, Array dst, Int32 dstOffset, Int32 count)
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
   at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadBuffer()
   at Igor.LinuxBuilder.plink_async(String command, Boolean fail_on_error)
   at Igor.LinuxBuilder.BuildAppImage(String work_dir, String exe_path, String assets_zip_path, String projectName, Boolean package)
   at Igor.LinuxBuilder.Package()
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Void** arguments, Signature sig, Boolean isConstructor)
   at System.Reflection.MethodBaseInvoker.InvokeWithNoArgs(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr)
Igor complete.

compiling as zip on the other hand is successful

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[YYDan]

Looking at the log in the package from the comment above, you must have resolved the original Squish error yourself, as I can see all of that stuff higher up the file and the build continues beyond that.

Will see what the newer error is.

[Emc1923]

I can confirm I'm able to generate a working appimage file with that sample in Ubuntu 22.04/ 24.04 IDEs as of Beta IDE v2024.600.0.579 Beta Runtime v2024.600.0.605, here is my output log: Ubuntu24.04_log.txt

[SunCatMC]

Sorry for disappearing for a bit.

The issue you linked def was happening for Ubuntu compiling and running on itself, no archlinux involved. But whatever the issue was, it doesn't happen on v2024.1100.0.634, so it doesn't matter. Will check if i have any issues with that version on archlinux soon

[SunCatMC]

still getting squashfs error when compiling on archlinux @YYDan log.txt can't test appimage on its own 'cos i failed to get a working file in time before i got the crash on my ubuntu machine