Pipali not launching on Linux

[FroogalTheDragon]

I'm having an issue with Pipali when I go to launch the AppImage it gets stuck at the loading screen. I have tried diving deep into this issue and here is what I have found:

First what's the expected behavior?
Pipali is supposed to open a loading animation while it loads and after a few seconds a screen that says "Loading" may appear and then the Pipali AI chat window should open, allowing the user to prompt Pipali.

What happens instead?
Pipali hangs on the loading screen and never fully loads.

What's the catch?
The server can be ran manually and it makes the app load to the prompt screen.

What have I tried?
I have tried using Claude to help me debug this application as I have never worked with bun before. I ran two different attempt with Claude and both of them pointed in the same direation.

Here is Claude's theory:

Bun runtime is downloaded and copied to src-tauri/binaries/bun-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Tauri compiles the Rust app and assembles an AppDir
Tauri calls linuxdeploy to bundle GTK and system libraries into the AppDir
linuxdeploy calls the GTK plugin (linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh) as part of this process
The GTK plugin does two things that corrupt Bun:

linuxdeploy itself scans all ELF binaries in usr/bin, patches their rpath to $ORIGIN, and bundles their library dependencies — this breaks Bun because Bun only needs basic system libs (libc, libpthread, etc.) and having its rpath patched causes it to load wrong/bundled versions
The webkit sed at the bottom of the plugin runs find "$APPDIR"/usr/lib* -name 'libwebkit*' -exec sed -i -e "s|/usr|././|g" — this was matching Bun and replacing every /usr string inside the binary with ././, completely corrupting it


The corrupted Bun is packaged into the AppImage
At runtime, Tauri spawns Bun as the sidecar → immediate segfault

The output of running the AppImage is:

[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [App] Splash window should be visible
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Server directory: "/tmp/.mount_PipaliEoaJHG/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server"
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Starting on 127.0.0.1:6464...
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Data directory: "/home/awesomepilot/.local/share/ai.pipali"
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Process spawned, waiting for server to be ready...
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [App] Global shortcut Alt+Space registered
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Terminated with code: None, signal: Some(11)
[2026-03-04T01:17:45Z INFO  pipali] [Updater] No updates available
[2026-03-04T01:17:54Z ERROR pipali] Sidecar not ready: Sidecar failed to become ready within timeout
[2026-03-04T01:17:54Z INFO  pipali] [App] Emitting sidecar-ready event
[2026-03-04T01:17:54Z INFO  pipali] [App] Server ready, triggering splash animation
[2026-03-04T01:17:56Z INFO  pipali] [App] Splash window closed
[2026-03-04T01:17:56Z INFO  pipali] [App] Main window shown

The Sidecar does exit with Some(11)

I have used ./Pipali*.AppImage --appimage-extract to get a squashfs-root directory and I go to squashfs-root/usr/bin/ where there is the bun executable and I run ./bun --version and I do get a seg fault core dumped error.

I can run the on in ./src-tauri/binaries/bun-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --version works fine. So good binary go in, bad binary come out?

Claude points to the script in scripts/linux/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh at the patch here:

# PATCH: Move statically-linked binaries out of AppDir before linuxdeploy scans
# usr/bin/. linuxdeploy runs `ldd` on every binary and crashes (std::runtime_error)
# when ldd returns exit code 1 on static binaries. We move them out, let linuxdeploy
# run on only dynamic binaries, then restore them.
STATIC_BACKUP="/tmp/linuxdeploy-static-backup-$$"
mkdir -p "$STATIC_BACKUP"
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
    if ! ldd "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
        echo "Temporarily moving static binary out of AppDir: $(basename "$file")"
        mv "$file" "$STATIC_BACKUP/"
    fi
done < <(find "$APPDIR/usr/bin" -executable -type f -print0)

env LINUXDEPLOY_PLUGIN_MODE=1 "$LINUXDEPLOY" --appdir="$APPDIR" "${LIBRARIES[@]}"

# PATCH: Restore statically-linked binaries
if [ -d "$STATIC_BACKUP" ] && [ "$(ls -A "$STATIC_BACKUP")" ]; then
    echo "Restoring statically-linked binaries to AppDir"
    cp -a "$STATIC_BACKUP"/* "$APPDIR/usr/bin/"
    rm -rf "$STATIC_BACKUP"
fi

which looks like it moves these binaries out before linuxdeploy mangles them, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have gone through several iteration of this function with Claude but I need to learn more about what is going on in this script. I'm not familiar with a bun + tauri configuration.

Let me know if this seems like the right direction!

[FroogalTheDragon]

I think i found some good info on this here this seems to be exactly what we are running into. I need to see if reverting to a certain point in the repo works, if not there might be an option to make patchelf skip certain files.

EDIT: I found another issue that seems like it's the same as the one we are dealing with.

[FroogalTheDragon]

I am going to attempt a roll back to 81992ab to see if this solves this issues.

UPDATE:
So simply rolling back to 81992ab and running bun run tauri:dev or bun run tauri:build produces:

Error `tauri.conf.json` error on `bundle > linux > appimage`: Additional properties are not allowed ('exclude' was unexpected)
error: script "tauri:dev" exited with code 1

[FroogalTheDragon]

I spun up a fresh Linux Mint 22 install. I downloaded the AppImage from pipali.ai and I ran it. It didn't run, it hung up at the loading screen like on my main OS. Here are the error messages I got from the VM.

You can see that I'm still getting the same Some(11) error message

[FroogalTheDragon]

This seems to get rid of the Some(11) error by downloading a fresh copy of the Bun binary and installing it. The bun binary is runnable after adding this. You can go into the AppDir and /usr/bin and run bun --version and it doesn't segfault. However we don't seem to be out of the woods as now I'm getting a Some(1) error, but the process seems to get much farther along now.

# PATCH: Move statically-linked binaries out of AppDir before linuxdeploy scans
# usr/bin/. linuxdeploy runs `ldd` on every binary and crashes (std::runtime_error)
# when ldd returns exit code 1 on static binaries. We move them out, let linuxdeploy
# run on only dynamic binaries, then restore them.
STATIC_BACKUP="/tmp/linuxdeploy-static-backup-$$"
mkdir -p "$STATIC_BACKUP"
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
    if ! ldd "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
        echo "Temporarily moving static binary out of AppDir: $(basename "$file")"
        mv "$file" "$STATIC_BACKUP/"
    fi
done < <(find "$APPDIR/usr/bin" -executable -type f -print0)

env LINUXDEPLOY_PLUGIN_MODE=1 "$LINUXDEPLOY" --appdir="$APPDIR" "${LIBRARIES[@]}"

# PATCH: Restore statically-linked binaries
if [ -d "$STATIC_BACKUP" ] && [ "$(ls -A "$STATIC_BACKUP")" ]; then
    echo "Restoring statically-linked binaries to AppDir"
    cp -a "$STATIC_BACKUP"/* "$APPDIR/usr/bin/"
    rm -rf "$STATIC_BACKUP"
fi

# Delete corrupt bun binary
rm -rf "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/bun

# Pull down a fresh one and install it
curl -L -o /tmp/bun.zip https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.3.10/bun-linux-x64.zip
unzip -oq /tmp/bun.zip -d /tmp/
mv /tmp/bun-linux-x64/bun "$APPDIR"/usr/bin && chmod +x "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/bun

# Cleanup
# mv /tmp/bun-linux-x64 $APPDIR/usr/bin/bun && chmod +x "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/bun
rm -rf /tmp/bun.zip && rm -rf /tmp/bun-linux-x64
# Create symbolic links as a workaround
# Details: https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk/issues/24#issuecomment-1030026529
echo "Manually setting rpath for GTK modules"

[FroogalTheDragon]

Now I'm getting this error after fixing the bun binary:

EDIT:
Full output:

(pipali:141571): libayatana-appindicator-WARNING **: 18:25:03.702: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code.
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [App] Splash window should be visible
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Using legacy data directory: "/home/froogal/.local/share/pipali"
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Updater] Skipping update check in debug build
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Server directory: "/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server"
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Starting on 127.0.0.1:6464...
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Data directory: "/home/froogal/.local/share/pipali"
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Process spawned, waiting for server to be ready...
[2026-03-20T00:25:03Z INFO  pipali] [App] Global shortcut Alt+Space registered
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] {"level":30,"time":1773966304860,"pid":141651,"hostname":"froogal-thinkpad","component":"server","msg":"Running bundled migrations..."}
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] {"level":30,"time":1773966304866,"pid":141651,"hostname":"froogal-thinkpad","component":"server","msg":"  🔄 Running migration: 0000_round_toad_men"}
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 4 | params: ${$}`);if(this.query=U,this.params=$,this.cause=D,Error.captureStackTrace(this,dD),D)this.cause=D}};Mf=class Mf extends IT{static[h1]="TransactionRollbackError";constructor(){super({message:"Rollback"})}}});var vY1,Tf,Rf;var _T=X1(()=>{a0();vY1=class vY1{static[h1]="ConsoleLogWriter";write(U){console.log(U)}};Tf=class Tf{static[h1]="DefaultLogger";writer;constructor(U){this.writer=U?.writer??new vY1}logQuery(U,$){let D=$.map((Y)=>{try{return JSON.stringify(Y)}catch{return String(Y)}}),W=D.length?` -- params: [${D.join(", ")}]`:"";this.writer.write(`Query: ${U}${W}`)}};Rf=class Rf{static[h1]="NoopLogger";logQuery(){}}});var y5;var pD=X1(()=>{a0();y5=class y5{static[h1]="QueryPromise";[Symbol.toStringTag]="QueryPromise";catch(U){return this.then(void 0,U)}finally(U){return this.then(($)=>{return U?.(),$},($)=>{throw U?.(),$})}then(U,$){return this.execute().then(U,$)}}});function kY1(U,$,D){let W={},Y=U.reduce((Q,{path:J,field:G},X)=>{let F;if(F0(G,A4))F=G;else if(F0(G,e0))F=G.decoder;else F=G.sql.decod
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 5 |                       CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ${f1.identifier(Y)}.${f1.identifier(W)} (
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 6 |                               id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 7 |                               hash text NOT NULL,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 8 |                               created_at bigint
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 9 |               `;await $.execute(f1`CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS ${f1.identifier(Y)}`),await $.execute(Q);let G=(await $.all(f1`select id, hash, created_at from ${f1.identifier(Y)}.${f1.identifier(W)} order by created_at desc limit 1`))[0];await $.transaction(async(X)=>{for await(let F of U)if(!G||Number(G.created_at)<F.folderMillis){for(let K of F.sql)await X.execute(f1.raw(K));await X.execute(f1`insert into ${f1.identifier(Y)}.${f1.identifier(W)} ("hash", "created_at") values(${F.hash}, ${F.folderMillis})`)}})}escapeName(U){return`"${U}"`}escapeParam(U){return`$${U+1}`}escapeString(U){return`'${U.replace(/'/g,"''")}'`}buildWithCTE(U){if(!U?.length)return;let $=[f1`with `];for(let[D,W]of U.entries())if($.push(f1`${f1.identifier(W._.alias)} as (${W._.sql})`),D<U.length-1)$.push(f1`, `);return $.push(f1` `),f1.join($)}buildDeleteQuery({table:U,where:$,returning:D,withList:W}){let Y=this.buildWithCTE(W),Q=D?f1` returning ${this.buildSelection(D,{isSingleTable:!0})}`:void 0,J=$?f1` where ${$}`:void 0;return f1`${Y}delete from
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] error: Failed query: DO $$
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] BEGIN
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]     IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_constraint WHERE conname = 'conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk') THEN
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]         ALTER TABLE "conversation" ADD CONSTRAINT "conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk" FOREIGN KEY ("agent_id") REFERENCES "public"."agents"("id") ON DELETE set null ON UPDATE no action;
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]     END IF;
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] END $$;
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] params: 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]   query: "DO $$\nBEGIN\n    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_constraint WHERE conname = 'conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk') THEN\n        ALTER TABLE \"conversation\" ADD CONSTRAINT \"conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk\" FOREIGN KEY (\"agent_id\") REFERENCES \"public\".\"agents\"(\"id\") ON DELETE set null ON UPDATE no action;\n    END IF;\nEND $$;",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]  params: [],
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at queryWithCache (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/dist/index.js:9:33849)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 1 | import{b as ae,e as s,f as h,g as d,h as p,i as oe,j as y}from"./chunk-QY3QWFKW.js";var hn={};ae(hn,{ABSTIME:()=>Et,ACLITEM:()=>Vt,BIT:()=>jt,BOOL:()=>be,BPCHAR:()=>_e,BYTEA:()=>ge,CHAR:()=>gt,CID:()=>St,CIDR:()=>Tt,CIRCLE:()=>Ut,DATE:()=>He,FLOAT4:()=>Qe,FLOAT8:()=>We,GTSVECTOR:()=>rn,INET:()=>kt,INT2:()=>ve,INT4:()=>Ge,INT8:()=>we,INTERVAL:()=>vt,JSON:()=>Ae,JSONB:()=>Ye,MACADDR:()=>Ot,MACADDR8:()=>Nt,MONEY:()=>Lt,NUMERIC:()=>Wt,OID:()=>je,PATH:()=>Mt,PG_DEPENDENCIES:()=>en,PG_LSN:()=>Xt,PG_NDISTINCT:()=>Zt,PG_NODE_TREE:()=>Bt,POLYGON:()=>Rt,REFCURSOR:()=>_t,REGCLASS:()=>Yt,REGCONFIG:()=>sn,REGDICTIONARY:()=>an,REGNAMESPACE:()=>on,REGOPER:()=>Ht,REGOPERATOR:()=>qt,REGPROC:()=>wt,REGPROCEDURE:()=>zt,REGROLE:()=>un,REGTYPE:()=>$t,RELTIME:()=>Ct,SMGR:()=>It,TEXT:()=>V,TID:()=>At,TIME:()=>Ft,TIMESTAMP:()=>qe,TIMESTAMPTZ:()=>xe,TIMETZ:()=>Gt,TINTERVAL:()=>Pt,TSQUERY:()=>nn,TSVECTOR:()=>tn,TXID_SNAPSHOT:()=>Jt,UUID:()=>Kt,VARBIT:()=>Qt,VARCHAR:()=>ze,XID:()=>xt,XML:()=>Dt,arrayParser:()=>yn,arraySerializer:()=>Ke
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] error: column "agent_id" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]      length: 397,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]    severity: "ERROR",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]      detail: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]        hint: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]    position: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]  internalPosition: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]  internalQuery: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       where: "SQL statement \"ALTER TABLE \"conversation\" ADD CONSTRAINT \"conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk\" FOREIGN KEY (\"agent_id\") REFERENCES \"public\".\"agents\"(\"id\") ON DELETE set null ON UPDATE no action\"\nPL/pgSQL function inline_code_block line 4 at SQL statement",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]      schema: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       table: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]    dataType: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]  constraint: undefined,
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]        file: "tablecmds.c",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]     routine: "transformColumnNameList",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       query: "DO $$\nBEGIN\n    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_constraint WHERE conname = 'conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk') THEN\n        ALTER TABLE \"conversation\" ADD CONSTRAINT \"conversation_agent_id_agents_id_fk\" FOREIGN KEY (\"agent_id\") REFERENCES \"public\".\"agents\"(\"id\") ON DELETE set null ON UPDATE no action;\n    END IF;\nEND $$;",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]      params: [],
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]  queryOptions: {
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]   rowMode: "object",
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]   parsers: [Object ...],
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] },
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]        code: "42703"
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at Ve (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/chunk-3WWIVTCY.js:1:17620)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at parse (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/chunk-3WWIVTCY.js:1:52)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at /tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/index.js:1:249
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at unknown:1:1
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at unknown:1:1
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at unknown:1:1
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at unknown:1:1
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at invoke_v (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/index.js:1:249)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at unknown:1:1
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at execProtocolRawSync (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/index.js:1:249)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at execProtocolRaw (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/index.js:1:249)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at execProtocolStream (/tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/index.js:1:249)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at /tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/chunk-F2DQ4FIK.js:1:296
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at /tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/node_modules/@electric-sql/pglite/dist/chunk-F2DQ4FIK.js:1:296
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar]       at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] note: missing sourcemaps for /tmp/.mount_PipaliHjlePh/usr/lib/Pipali/resources/server/dist/index.js
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] note: consider bundling with '--sourcemap' to get unminified traces
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] 
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z WARN  pipali] [Sidecar] Bun v1.3.10 (Linux x64)
    
[2026-03-20T00:25:04Z INFO  pipali] [Sidecar] Terminated with code: Some(1), signal: None
[2026-03-20T00:25:13Z ERROR pipali] Sidecar not ready: Sidecar failed to become ready within timeout
[2026-03-20T00:25:13Z INFO  pipali] [App] Emitting sidecar-ready event
[2026-03-20T00:25:13Z INFO  pipali] [App] Server ready, triggering splash animation
[2026-03-20T00:25:15Z INFO  pipali] [App] Splash window closed
[2026-03-20T00:25:15Z INFO  pipali] [App] Main window shown

[FroogalTheDragon]

It seems I was able to get rid of the above errors by deleting the corrupted database. Pipali seems to build and run on Debian 13 with these changes. I'm gonna take the app Image I built on Debian an try it in Archlinux and Fedora maybe. I also need to clean the changes up a bit as this was just a proof to test my changes so I hard-coded everything.

Ok so Archlinux gives a white screen, most likely because of this issue but the manual re-load trick isn't working on my version of Arch (Artix + MATE Desktop).

[FroogalTheDragon]

Alright! I seemed to have gotten it working at least on Debian, hopefully it will also work on all of the Debian derivatives. I haven't tested this in Fedora yet or any RPM based, it doesn't work in Archlinux yet.

[FroogalTheDragon]

Now I'm getting this error after fixing the bun binary:

In regards to this. I think this fix has been working the entire time, I'm just a dingus and didn't deleted the corrupt database after building the new AppImage. Doh!

[FroogalTheDragon]

I edited curl -L -o /tmp/bun.zip https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.3.10/bun-linux-x64.zip to be a dynamic string that gets the version of bun that the build environment is using. I packed it all up in a function.

[Winston-1874]

Root cause confirmed — linuxdeploy rpath patching corrupts Bun sidecar

Same issue here on Linux Mint 22 (Cinnamon, x86_64). The diagnosis from @FroogalTheDragon is correct. Expanding with a confirmed workaround and a proposed build fix.

Why the existing ldd-based patch doesn't work

The current protection in scripts/linux/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh does this:

if ! ldd "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    # move static binary out
fi

Bun is not fully static — it dynamically links libc, libpthread, libm, etc. So ldd returns exit code 0, the binary stays in usr/bin/, and linuxdeploy proceeds to:

1. Patch its rpath to $ORIGIN
2. Bundle its library dependencies into the AppDir

This causes Bun to load wrong/incompatible bundled library versions → SIGSEGV (signal 11).

Confirmed workaround (tested, works)

Extract, swap the corrupted bun binary with a clean one, repack:

# Extract
./pipali-linux-x64.AppImage --appimage-extract

# Verify it's broken
./squashfs-root/usr/bin/bun --version  # → Segmentation fault

# Get a clean Bun
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

# Swap
cp ~/.bun/bin/bun ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/bun
chmod +x ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/bun

# Verify it works
./squashfs-root/usr/bin/bun --version  # → 1.3.11

# Run directly (works)
./squashfs-root/AppRun

# Or repack into a proper AppImage
wget -q https://github.com/AppImage/appimagetool/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -O /tmp/appimagetool
chmod +x /tmp/appimagetool
ARCH=x86_64 /tmp/appimagetool squashfs-root Pipali-fixed.AppImage
./Pipali-fixed.AppImage

This gives a fully functional Pipali (server starts, migrations run, auth works, models sync).

Note: You'll also want socat installed for the sandbox feature: sudo apt install socat

Proposed build fix

Replace the ldd-based static binary detection with name-based sidecar protection. The protection must run before the GTK version auto-detection loop (which also scans usr/bin/ via ldd) and restoration must be the very last operation in the script.

In scripts/linux/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh:

1) Remove the existing STATIC_BACKUP / ldd-based block entirely.

2) Insert right after APPDIR="$(realpath "$APPDIR")" / mkdir -p "$APPDIR", before the GTK auto-detect loop:

# Protect sidecar binaries from linuxdeploy rpath patching
SIDECAR_PATTERNS=("*bun*")  # extend as needed: ("*bun*" "*node*" "*deno*")
SIDECAR_BACKUP="/tmp/pipali-sidecar-backup-$$"
SIDECAR_SAVED_FILES=()

protect_sidecars() {
    mkdir -p "$SIDECAR_BACKUP"
    for pattern in "${SIDECAR_PATTERNS[@]}"; do
        while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
            local name
            name="$(basename "$file")"
            echo "[sidecar-protect] Sheltering $name from linuxdeploy"
            cp --preserve=all "$file" "$SIDECAR_BACKUP/$name"
            rm "$file"
            SIDECAR_SAVED_FILES+=("$name")
        done < <(find "$APPDIR/usr/bin" -maxdepth 1 -executable -type f -iname "$pattern" -print0 2>/dev/null)
    done
}

restore_sidecars() {
    for name in "${SIDECAR_SAVED_FILES[@]}"; do
        if [ -f "$SIDECAR_BACKUP/$name" ]; then
            echo "[sidecar-protect] Restoring original $name"
            cp --preserve=all "$SIDECAR_BACKUP/$name" "$APPDIR/usr/bin/$name"
            chmod +x "$APPDIR/usr/bin/$name"
        fi
    done
    rm -rf "$SIDECAR_BACKUP"
}

protect_sidecars

3) Add restore_sidecars as the very last line of the script (after the symlink loop, after all sed operations).

Happy to open a PR if maintainers confirm this direction.

Environment

• Linux Mint 22 (Cinnamon) x86_64
• Pipali AppImage from latest release
• Symptom: [Sidecar] Terminated with code: None, signal: Some(11)

[FroogalTheDragon]

I got Pipali running on Debian and Fedora!! LOL Jk see #21

[FroogalTheDragon]

I also got it "running" in arch but the browser doesn't seem to launch to login, this will be another issue.

[FroogalTheDragon]

Root cause confirmed — linuxdeploy rpath patching corrupts Bun sidecar

My fix is:

# This function deletes the old bun binary after linux deploy runs ldd
# It removes the old binary, pulls down a fresh one and installs it
replace_bun_binary() {
    # Delete corrupt bun binary
    rm -rf "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/bun

    # Use the same version as the build environment
    BUN_VERSION=$(bun --version);

    # Pull down a fresh one and install it
    curl -L -o /tmp/bun.zip https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v${BUN_VERSION}/bun-linux-x64.zip
    unzip -oq /tmp/bun.zip -d /tmp/
    mv /tmp/bun-linux-x64/bun "$APPDIR"/usr/bin && chmod +x "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/bun

    # Cleanup
    rm -rf /tmp/bun.zip && rm -rf /tmp/bun-linux-x64

    # set write permission on lib dir again to make it deletable.
    # Some distros use lib64 (Fedora, RHEL), others use lib (Debian, Ubuntu).
    chmod +w "$APPDIR"/usr/lib64 2>/dev/null || chmod +w "$APPDIR"/usr/lib 2>/dev/null || true
}

You call it here:

PATCH_ARRAY=(
    "$gtk3_immodulesdir"
    "$gtk3_printbackendsdir"
    "$gdk_pixbuf_moduledir"
)
for directory in "${PATCH_ARRAY[@]}"; do
    while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
        ln $verbose -s "${file/\/usr\/lib\//}" "$APPDIR/usr/lib"
    done < <(find "$directory" -name '*.so' -print0)
done

# Replace the corrupt bun binary
replace_bun_binary;

# We have to copy the files first to not get permission errors when we assign gio_extras_dir
find /usr/lib* -name libgiognutls.so -exec mkdir -p "$APPDIR"/"$(dirname '{}')" \; -exec cp --parents '{}' "$APPDIR/" \; || true
# related files that we seemingly don't need:
# libgiolibproxy.so - libgiognomeproxy.so - glib-pacrunner

@debanjum can go with whatever he thinks is the better fix.

My logic is if ldd/linux deploy is a danger to the binaries, why have them present at ALL during this process. Moving them out, and moving them back in seem redundant when you can just pull them down when its safe. This can be done with all of the binaries.

[unkwn1code]

I got it to work by extracting the appimage and replacing the bundled bun with bun from my system (arch via pacman) via a symlink. It has launched and worked fine. However I don't think I'll use this project as both the lack of local LLM usage and the requirement to "continue with Google" is...

Whatever they're using to package their linux appimage is using a broken version of bun that results in /usr/bin/bun without build-id leading to a coredump.