Linux release only works with root

[nitinkmr333]

What's wrong

I have been unable to start the application (linux release or appimage) as normal user. It only starts if I use sudo to run it.

How to reproduce

1. Download and run GitHub-Store-x86_64.AppImage on Bazzite DX (should also happen on Bazzite). The application fails with segmentation fault error.

Your setup

Tried both github-store-1.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst (linux release) and GitHub-Store-x86_64.AppImage (appimage). I get segmentation error with both-

❯ ./github_store.appimage
[1]    45321 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./github_store.appimage

Surprisingly, it works with superuser-

❯ sudo ./github_store.appimage
[sudo] password for nitin: 
=== GitHub Store session 2026-05-08T12:00:22.340470193Z ===
OS=Linux 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 (amd64)
Java=21.0.10 (Eclipse Adoptium)
LogDir=/root/.local/state/GitHub-Store/logs
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Debug: Loading repos: category=TRENDING, topics=[], page=1, isInitial=true
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en/16.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en-IN/15.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en-IN/15.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en/15.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en/15.json
Debug: Attempting to load cached trending repositories...
Debug: Backend returned 139 merged repos for trending/all
Debug: Using mirror cached data: 139 repos
Debug: Received 139 repos, hasMore=false, nextPage=2
Debug: Flow completed

(app opens)

Operating system is Bazzite DX (nvidia):

❯ uname -a
Linux bazzite 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 25 07:35:02 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-dx-nvidia:stable
                   Digest: sha256:a76a5bcf34907b62c30598c6d6799f1948bd2226ffcd689ce085ceeb2bdc162c
                  Version: 43.20260420 (2026-04-30T04:08:25Z)

I am running it on a laptop with Radeon 780M + RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. Application starts with AMD GPU.

Anything else

Screenshot-

[rainxchzed]

Thanks for the detailed report — the segfault before any log output is a strong signal that the crash is in Skiko / Skia native code, before any JVM exception handler runs. That pattern matches the Nvidia proprietary driver SEGV-ing on hybrid-GPU laptops (your AMD 780M + RTX 4060 setup).

I've put together a fix that lets you rescue the install via env vars (#556 — will ship in 1.9.0). In the meantime, here are workarounds you can try right now on your existing 1.8.1 build:

1. Force the iGPU (probably the easiest, since you said the AMD path works)

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 ./GitHub-Store-x86_64.AppImage

2. Make sure you're in the render and video groups

sudo usermod -aG render,video $USER
# log out + back in for the change to take effect

sudo works for you because root bypasses the render-node access check; if your normal user is missing one of those groups, that alone could explain the crash.

3. Once #556 ships in 1.9.0

SKIKO_RENDER_API=SOFTWARE ./GitHub-Store-x86_64.AppImage   # CPU rendering, slow but always works
SKIKO_RENDER_API=OPENGL ./GitHub-Store-x86_64.AppImage     # force OpenGL if Vulkan was the culprit

SOFTWARE is the safe bet for Bazzite DX hybrid setups.

If 1 or 2 work for you on 1.8.1 today, please drop a note here so I know which path actually fixed it on Bazzite DX — helps me decide whether to ship a launcher-script default for hybrid-GPU detection in the future.

[nitinkmr333]

I tried the suggested workarounds but none of them worked. I get same segmentation fault error.

Few things I tried-

1. Run on iGPU

❯ __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 ./github_store.appimage
[1]    9980 segmentation fault (core dumped)  __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 ./github_store.appimage

❯ VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json ./github_store.appimage
[1]    12223 segmentation fault (core dumped)  VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json

I also tried it after disabling nvidia gpu with kernel params but got same error. Kernel params used- module_blacklist=nouveau,nvidia,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset nouveau.modeset=0

I then tried creating a distrobox (https://distrobox.it) fedora container with only access to AMD igpu (no nvidia). This way system will not even see nvidia gpu from host. But I still got same error. It only worked with "sudo" inside distrobox (distrobox is set up using rootless podman).

2. sudo usermod -aG render,video $USER - Same error
3. Software/opengl mode

❯ SKIKO_RENDER_API=SOFTWARE ./github_store.appimage
[1]    10643 segmentation fault (core dumped)  SKIKO_RENDER_API=SOFTWARE ./github_store.appimage
❯ SKIKO_RENDER_API=OPENGL ./github_store.appimage
[1]    10838 segmentation fault (core dumped)  SKIKO_RENDER_API=OPENGL ./github_store.appimage

4. Run on Nvidia GPU only.

❯ __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia ./github_store.appimage
[1]    28664 segmentation fault (core dumped)  __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia 

The laptop has a MUX Switch to change the physical connection of laptop display to Nvidia. I got same error after changing the display connection to nvidia.

To me, it looks like the issue might not be related to hybrid laptop gpus (maybe issue with system libraries instead?).

5. Log with strace to show system calls (if it helps)-

❯ strace -o trace.log ./github_store.appimage
[1]    34892 segmentation fault (core dumped)  strace -o trace.log ./github_store.appimage

Please see the attached trace.log file for output.

With root-

❯ sudo su
❯ strace -o trace_sudo.log ./github_store.appimage
=== GitHub Store session 2026-05-09T05:58:26.965307288Z ===
OS=Linux 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 (amd64)
Java=21.0.10 (Eclipse Adoptium)
LogDir=/root/.local/state/GitHub-Store/logs
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Debug: Loading repos: category=TRENDING, topics=[], page=1, isInitial=true
Info: Sync completed: 0 deleted, 0 stale pending removed, 0 pending resolved, 0 migrated, 0 version-checked, 0 stale parked files cleared
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en/16.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en-IN/15.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en-IN/15.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en/15.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en/15.json
Debug: Attempting to load cached trending repositories...
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en-IN/16.json
Warn: (WhatsNewLoader) Failed to load what's-new entry at files/whatsnew/en/16.json: Missing resource with path: composeResources/zed.rainxch.githubstore.core.presentation.res/files/whatsnew/en/16.json
Debug: Backend returned 140 merged repos for trending/all
Debug: Using mirror cached data: 140 repos
Debug: Received 140 repos, hasMore=false, nextPage=2
Debug: Flow completed
Error: Failed to load apps: Job was cancelled
Error: (WhatsNewViewModel) Failed to observe app-language for what's-new reloads
kotlinx.coroutines.JobCancellationException: Job was cancelled; job=SupervisorJobImpl{Cancelling}@71696b3b

(app opens, then I manually closed it)
Please see the attached trace_sudo.log file.

6. I have attached the output of list of all system packages installed and the package versions.

❯ rpm -qa > system_packages.log

Please see the attached file system_packages.log.
These are all installed as part of system update 43.20260420 (as mentioned in the issue description).

7. I have attached the output of ujust device-info for more information about the laptop. Please see the attached file device-info.log.

8. I am using KDE Plasma desktop environment.

Operating System: Bazzite 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Qt Version: 6.10.3
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82Y9
System Version: Legion Slim 5 16APH8

9. Tried disabling selinux

❯ ./github_store.appimage
[1]    64037 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./github_store.appimage
❯ getenforce
Enforcing
❯ sudo setenforce 0
❯ getenforce
Permissive
❯ ./github_store.appimage
[1]    65644 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./github_store.appimage

trace.log
trace_sudo.log
system_packages.log
device-info.log

[rainxchzed]

Thanks — your traces flipped the diagnosis. Crash is not GPU. Both runs mount the AppImage cleanly and start the bundled JRE; the segfault hits right after libpthread.so.0 loads, before libjvm.so is even mapped. Skiko isn't involved yet, so SKIKO_RENDER_API and the iGPU tricks can't help. Sorry for the runaround.

Only difference between your runs: 94 env vars under your user vs 49 under sudo. Something in your Plasma session is poking the bundled Temurin 21 launcher into a bad deref. Could you try:

1. env | sort > env-full.log and attach (redact secrets first).

2. Minimum env:

env -i HOME=$HOME PATH=/usr/bin:/bin DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR WAYLAND_DISPLAY=$WAYLAND_DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ./github_store.appimage

3. Unset usual JLI suspects:

unset _JAVA_OPTIONS JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD LD_AUDIT JAVA_HOME && ./github_store.appimage

If (2) works → env-var poisoning confirmed, I'll ship a sanitizing launcher wrapper in 1.9.x. If (3) works → narrowed to one of those six.

[nitinkmr333]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them but I am still getting the same error.

1. Minimum env:

❯ env -i HOME=$HOME PATH=/usr/bin:/bin DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR WAYLAND_DISPLAY=$WAYLAND_DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ./github_store.appimage
[1]    240290 segmentation fault (core dumped)  env -i HOME=$HOME PATH=/usr/bin:/bin DISPLAY=$DISPLAY

2. Unset JLI:

❯ unset _JAVA_OPTIONS JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD LD_AUDIT JAVA_HOME && ./github_store.appimage
[1]    240704 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./github_store.appimage

I have attached the output of env | sort > env-full.log (see env-full.log) for user env variables and output of sudo env | env-full-sudo.log (see env-full-sudo.log) for root user env variables. It doesn't look like there is anything sensitive, so I have not removed any variable.

I also tried unsetting all user env variables and loading all root env variables in the zsh shell but it still didn't work.
First I have unset all user variables-

for var in $(/usr/bin/env | /usr/bin/cut -d= -f1); do
  unset "$var" 2>/dev/null
done

Then I immediately loaded all root user env variables from env-full-sudo.log file-

while IFS='=' read -r key value || [ -n "$key" ]; do
  [ -n "$key" ] && export "$key=$value" 2>/dev/null
done < env-full-sudo.log

Output-

❯ for var in $(/usr/bin/env | /usr/bin/cut -d= -f1); do
  unset "$var" 2>/dev/null
done

  /var/home/nitin/userdata/appimage/images ❯ while IFS='=' read -r key value || [ -n "$key" ]; do\n  [ -n "$key" ] && export "$key=$value" 2>/dev/null\ndone < env-full-sudo.log
❯ ./github_store.appimage
[1]    251821 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./github_store.appimage

env-full.log
env-full-sudo.log

[nitinkmr333]

Here is what installed through brew on the system-

❯ brew list
==> Formulae
ada-url        c-ares           ggml            libedit     libxau      lpeg       nbytes     powerlevel10k  strace          vulkan-loader
basedpyright   ca-certificates  git-lfs         libffi      libxcb      lsd        ncurses    python@3.14    tree-sitter     wayland
bbrew          certifi          gmp             libmpc      libxdmcp    luajit     neovim     readline       unibilium       xorgproto
berkeley-db@5  expat            hdrhistogram_c  libnghttp2  libxml2     luv        node       ruff           unzip           xz
binutils       fclones          hf              libnghttp3  libyaml     lz4        ollama     simdjson       utf8proc        zlib-ng-compat
brotli         fmt              htop            libngtcp2   llama.cpp   merve      openblas   simdutf        uv              zsh-autosuggestions
btop           gcc              icu4c@78        libuv       llhttp      mpdecimal  openssl@3  spirv-headers  uvwasi          zsh-syntax-highlighting
bzip2          gdu              isl             libx11      lm-sensors  mpfr       podlet     sqlite         vulkan-headers  zstd

❯ brew leaves
basedpyright
btop
fclones
gdu
hf
htop
llama.cpp
lsd
neovim
ollama
podlet
powerlevel10k
ruff
strace
uv
valkyrie00/bbrew/bbrew
zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-syntax-highlighting

Here is my .bashrc file-

# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
    . /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific environment
if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:" ]]; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
export PATH

# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=

# User specific aliases and functions
if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then
    for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do
        if [ -f "$rc" ]; then
            . "$rc"
        fi
    done
fi
unset rc

Although I am using zsh (oh-my-zsh) while using terminal-

# Enable Powerlevel10k instant prompt. Should stay close to the top of ~/.zshrc.
# Initialization code that may require console input (password prompts, [y/n]
# confirmations, etc.) must go above this block; everything else may go below.
if [[ -r "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh" ]]; then
  source "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh"
fi

# Path to your Oh My Zsh installation.
export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"

zstyle ':omz:update' mode auto      # update automatically without asking

plugins=(git sudo)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

## custom code
source /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme
source /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
source /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
## custom code end

# To customize prompt, run `p10k configure` or edit ~/.p10k.zsh.
[[ ! -f ~/.p10k.zsh ]] || source ~/.p10k.zsh

# lsd
alias ls='lsd'
alias l='lsd -l'
alias la='lsd -a'
alias lla='lsd -la'
alias lt='lsd --tree'

# add local bin path for zsh (only)
PATH=/var/home/nitin/.local/bin:${PATH}

I doubt shell would matter.

[nitinkmr333]

I tried creating a separate user on my system and github-store is working fine (without root) when I am logged into that account/user. It is probably an issue with some userspace program or configuration. I will investigate further and close this issue when I find the culprit.

@rainxchzed Thank you for the help.