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fix(linux): avoid mismatched libxkbcommon in CEF packages
zatevakhin Nov 9, 2026
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chore(release): bump QueryMT Desktop to 0.1.10
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fix(desktop): use the hexagon brand mark for the app icon
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions nfpm.yaml
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Expand Up @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ overrides:
- libxext6
- libxfixes3
- libxkbcommon0
- libxkbcommon-x11-0
- libxrandr2
- xdg-utils
- xwayland
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{
"name": "querymt-desktop",
"version": "0.1.9",
"version": "0.1.10",
"private": true,
"type": "module",
"scripts": {
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Expand Up @@ -58,15 +58,23 @@ bash scripts/cef/stage-runtime.sh release "$PROFILE_DIR"
WORK="$TARGET_ROOT/cef-package-$ARCH"
OUT="$TARGET_ROOT/release/bundle"
RUNTIME="$WORK/runtime"
XKB_FALLBACK="$WORK/xkb-fallback"
rm -rf "$WORK"
mkdir -p "$RUNTIME"
mkdir -p "$RUNTIME" "$XKB_FALLBACK"
rm -rf "$OUT/appimage" "$OUT/deb" "$OUT/tar"
mkdir -p "$OUT/appimage" "$OUT/deb" "$OUT/tar"

cp -a "$PROFILE_DIR"/*.so* "$RUNTIME/" 2>/dev/null || true
cp -a "$PROFILE_DIR"/*.pak "$PROFILE_DIR"/*.dat "$PROFILE_DIR"/*.bin "$PROFILE_DIR"/*.json "$RUNTIME/" 2>/dev/null || true
stage_library_family libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 "$RUNTIME"
stage_library_family libxcb-xkb.so.1 "$RUNTIME"
# winit dlopens libxkbcommon-x11 for the CEF runtime's X11 event loop.
# libxkbcommon-x11 builds keymaps using libxkbcommon's private struct layouts,
# so it must come from the same release as libxkbcommon. Never put it next to
# the binary (RUNPATH=$ORIGIN would pair it with a different host libxkbcommon
# and segfault in xkb_state_update_mask). Keep a matched set in a separate
# directory that the AppImage only uses when the host lacks libxkbcommon-x11.
stage_library_family libxkbcommon.so.0 "$XKB_FALLBACK"
stage_library_family libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 "$XKB_FALLBACK"
stage_library_family libxcb-xkb.so.1 "$XKB_FALLBACK"
cp -a "$PROFILE_DIR"/chrome_crashpad_handler "$RUNTIME/" 2>/dev/null || true
cp -a "$PROFILE_DIR"/CEF-LICENSE.txt "$RUNTIME/"
mkdir -p "$RUNTIME/locales"
Expand All @@ -88,6 +96,8 @@ fi
APPDIR="$WORK/QueryMT.AppDir"
mkdir -p "$APPDIR/usr/bin"
cp -a "$RUNTIME/." "$APPDIR/usr/bin/"
mkdir -p "$APPDIR/usr/lib/xkb-fallback"
cp -a "$XKB_FALLBACK/." "$APPDIR/usr/lib/xkb-fallback/"
cp "$BINARY" "$APPDIR/usr/bin/querymt-desktop"
cp packaging/querymt-desktop.desktop "$APPDIR/querymt-desktop.desktop"
cp src-tauri/icons/icon.png "$APPDIR/querymt-desktop.png"
Expand All @@ -96,6 +106,42 @@ cat > "$APPDIR/AppRun" <<'APPRUN'
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE/usr/bin${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

# Only libraries loadable by this AppImage's architecture count; a 32-bit-only
# host copy must not suppress the bundled fallback.
case "$(uname -m)" in
x86_64) LDCONFIG_ARCH=x86-64; MULTIARCH=x86_64-linux-gnu; ELF_MACHINE=3e ;;
aarch64 | arm64) LDCONFIG_ARCH=AArch64; MULTIARCH=aarch64-linux-gnu; ELF_MACHINE=b7 ;;
*) LDCONFIG_ARCH=; MULTIARCH=; ELF_MACHINE= ;;
esac

elf_matches_arch() {
command -v od >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
[ "$(od -An -tx1 -j4 -N1 "$1" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' \n')" = 02 ] || return 1
[ -z "$ELF_MACHINE" ] || [ "$(od -An -tx1 -j18 -N1 "$1" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' \n')" = "$ELF_MACHINE" ]
}

host_has_library() {
for ldconfig in ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig /usr/sbin/ldconfig; do
if command -v "$ldconfig" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ -n "$LDCONFIG_ARCH" ]; then
"$ldconfig" -p 2>/dev/null | grep -q "[[:space:]]$1 (libc6,$LDCONFIG_ARCH" && return 0
fi
break
fi
done
for dir in ${MULTIARCH:+/usr/lib/$MULTIARCH /lib/$MULTIARCH} /usr/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib /lib; do
[ -e "$dir/$1" ] && elf_matches_arch "$dir/$1" && return 0
done
return 1
}

# libxkbcommon-x11 must match the libxkbcommon it is paired with. Prefer the
# host's pair; only fall back to the bundled, matched pair when the host has no
# libxkbcommon-x11 at all.
if ! host_has_library libxkbcommon-x11.so.0; then
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE/usr/lib/xkb-fallback:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
fi
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '1,155p' scripts/cef/package.sh
rg -n 'architecture|arch:|amd64|x86_64|aarch64|APPIMAGE|appimage' scripts/cef nfpm.yaml .github/workflows

Repository: querymt/querymt-desktop

Length of output: 16772

Script executed:

git diff b8ed9738130068acf4060409eaa40ed2be86894c ef74bc53693627fcd695c335f044aba2150a6278 -- scripts/cef/package.sh
printf '\n--- launcher and packaging ---\n'
nl -ba scripts/cef/package.sh | sed -n '35,150p'
printf '\n--- dependency and entrypoint references ---\n'
rg -n -F -e 'winit' -e 'EventLoop' -e 'event_loop' -e 'xkbcommon' -- src-tauri/Cargo.toml src-tauri/Cargo.lock src-tauri/src scripts/cef .github/workflows/release.yml || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '\n--- CEF release workflow ---\n'
nl -ba .github/workflows/release.yml | sed -n '110,135p;240,275p'
printf '\n--- local registry availability ---\n'
ls -d "$HOME"/.cargo/registry/src/*/winit-* "$HOME"/.cargo/registry/src/*/xkbcommon-dl-* 2>/dev/null || :

Repository: querymt/querymt-desktop

Length of output: 15169

Script executed:

printf '%s\n' '--- pinned dependency entries ---'
sed -n '5060,5105p;6825,6858p;7025,7060p;7280,7315p' src-tauri/Cargo.lock
printf '%s\n' '--- runtime binding ---'
rg -n -F -e 'tauri-runtime-cef' -e 'sable' -e 'cef' -- src-tauri/Cargo.toml src-tauri/src/main.rs src-tauri/src/lib.rs | sed -n '1,140p'
printf '%s\n' '--- startup ---'
nl -ba src-taauri/src/main.rs 2>/dev/null || nl -ba src-tauri/src/main.rs | sed -n '1,200p'
printf '%s\n' '--- staging runtime ---'
nl -ba scripts/cef/stage-runtime.sh | sed -n '1,160p'

Repository: querymt/querymt-desktop

Length of output: 10954

Web query:

Linux dynamic loader dlopen 64 bit executable rejects 32 bit shared library wrong ELF class ELFCLASS32

Result:

Sources consulted:
- File: dl-load.c | Debian Sources — https://sources.debian.org/src/glibc/2.41-11/elf/dl-load.c
- The Linux man-pages Book — https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/man-pages-6.06.pdf
- The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t – Michał Górny — https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/09/28/the-perils-of-transition-to-64-bit-time_t/
- File: dl-load.c | Debian Sources — https://sources.debian.org/src/glibc/2.24-11%2Bdeb9u4/elf/dl-load.c
- File: dl-load.c | Debian Sources — https://sources.debian.org/src/glibc/2.44-1/elf/dl-load.c
- …and 16 more

Web query:

docs.rs winit-x11 0.31.0-beta.2 xkbcommon xkbcommon_x11_handle unable load X11 event loop

Result:

Sources consulted:
- winit-x11 0.31.0-beta.2 - Docs.rs — https://docs.rs/crate/winit-x11/0.31.0-beta.2/source/src
- winit-x11 0.31.0-beta.2 - Docs.rs — https://docs.rs/crate/winit-x11/0.31.0-beta.2
- winit-x11 0.31.0-beta.2 - Docs.rs — https://docs.rs/crate/winit-x11/0.31.0-beta.2/source/Cargo.lock
- winit 0.31.0-beta.2 - Docs.rs — https://docs.rs/crate/winit/0.31.0-beta.2/source/Cargo.toml
- …and 43 more

Web query:

docs.rs xkbcommon-dl 0.4.2 xkbcommon_x11_handle libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 source

Result:

Sources consulted:
- fix(ci): bundle libxkbcommon-x11 in the CEF AppImage by chrox · Pull Request #6151 · readest/readest · GitHub — https://github.cnmirror.site/readest/readest/pull/6151
- missing `libxkbcommon-x11.so` with `cargo build` in Ubuntu VM · Issue #4970 · emilk/egui · GitHub — GitHub issue 4970 in emilk/egui (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- xkbcommon_dl - Rust — https://docs.rs/xkbcommon-dl/latest/xkbcommon_dl/
- List of all items in this crate — https://docs.rs/xkbcommon-dl/latest/xkbcommon_dl/all.html
- Package libxkbcommon-x11 — https://packages.neoarchlinux.org/libxkbcommon-x11
- …and 36 more

Script executed:

python3 - <<'PY'
import urllib.request, tarfile, io
for name, version, needles in [
    ('winit-x11', '0.31.0-beta.2', ('xkbcommon_x11', 'xkbcommon-dl', 'xkbcommon::', 'xkbcommon_dl')),
    ('xkbcommon-dl', '0.4.2', ('libxkbcommon-x11.so', 'xkbcommon_x11_handle')),
]:
    url = f'https://static.crates.io/crates/{name}/{name}-{version}.crate'
    print(f'--- {url} ---')
    try:
        data = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=12).read()
        archive = tarfile.open(fileobj=io.BytesIO(data), mode='r:gz')
        for member in archive.getmembers():
            if not member.isfile() or not member.name.endswith('.rs'):
                continue
            lines = archive.extractfile(member).read().decode('utf-8').splitlines()
            indices = [i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if any(s in line for s in needles)]
            for i in indices:
                lo, hi = max(0, i-7), min(len(lines), i+9)
                print(f'{member.name}:{lo+1}-{hi}')
                for j in range(lo, hi):
                    print(f'{j+1:4} {lines[j]}')
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f'FETCH FAILED: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}')
PY
printf '\n--- CEF dependency and app run binding ---\n'
nl -ba src-tauri/Cargo.lock | sed -n '5048,5090p;6830,6857p;7030,7056p;7285,7302p'
nl -ba src-tauri/src/lib.rs | sed -n '10,55p;75,130p'
rg -n -F -e 'Builder::<BrowserEngine>' -e 'Builder<BrowserEngine>' -e '.run(' -- src-tauri/src/lib.rs

Repository: querymt/querymt-desktop

Length of output: 10257

Script executed:

python3 - <<'PY'
import urllib.request, tarfile, io
for name, version, needles in [
    ('winit-x11', '0.31.0-beta.2', ('from_x11_xkb',)),
    ('winit-common', '0.31.0-beta.2', ('from_x11_xkb', 'xkbcommon_x11_handle')),
]:
    url = f'https://static.crates.io/crates/{name}/{name}-{version}.crate'
    print(f'--- {url} ---')
    try:
        data = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=12).read()
        archive = tarfile.open(fileobj=io.BytesIO(data), mode='r:gz')
        for member in archive.getmembers():
            if not member.isfile() or not member.name.endswith('.rs'):
                continue
            lines = archive.extractfile(member).read().decode('utf-8').splitlines()
            for i, line in enumerate(lines):
                if not any(s in line for s in needles):
                    continue
                lo, hi = max(0, i-16), min(len(lines), i+20)
                print(f'{member.name}:{lo+1}-{hi}')
                for j in range(lo, hi):
                    print(f'{j+1:4} {lines[j]}')
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f'FETCH FAILED: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}')
PY

Repository: querymt/querymt-desktop

Length of output: 6113

Check that the host library is loadable before skipping the fallback.

If the host has only a 32-bit libxkbcommon-x11.so.0, host_has_library accepts it for the 64-bit AppImage. If no other loadable X11 library is on the loader path, X11 initialization can panic instead of using the bundled fallback.

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Review comment at @scripts/cef/package.sh around lines 109 - 127:
Update host_has_library and the fallback decision to skip the bundled library
only when the host’s libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 is loadable by the AppImage’s
architecture. Treat a 32-bit-only match as unavailable so the matched bundled
pair is added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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# AppImages cannot install a path-based AppArmor userns profile. Fall back only
# when the host blocks the user namespaces required by Chromium's sandbox.
if ! command -v unshare >/dev/null 2>&1 || ! unshare --user --map-root-user true >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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[package]
name = "querymt-desktop"
version = "0.1.9"
version = "0.1.10"
description = "QueryMT Desktop"
authors = ["QueryMT"]
edition = "2021"
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{
"$schema": "https://schema.tauri.app/config/2",
"productName": "QueryMT Desktop",
"version": "0.1.9",
"version": "0.1.10",
"identifier": "com.querymt.desktop",
"build": {
"beforeDevCommand": "npm run dev",
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