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AppImage breaks nested launching from Python #1435
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The problem demonstrated on an extracted AppImage:
[0] % ./AppRun Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/bin/scc", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ~~~~^^ File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/scc/scripts.py", line 412, in main sys.exit(command(sys.argv[0], sys.argv[2:])) ~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/scc/scripts.py", line 47, in cmd_gui return run_binary("sc-controller", argv) File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/scc/scripts.py", line 30, in run_binary child = subprocess.Popen([binary] + argv) File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1039, in __init__ self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ pass_fds, cwd, env, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...<5 lines>... gid, gids, uid, umask, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ start_new_session, process_group) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1857, in _execute_child self._posix_spawn(args, executable, env, restore_signals, close_fds, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ p2cread, p2cwrite, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ c2pread, c2pwrite, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ errread, errwrite) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1801, in _posix_spawn self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/c0rn3j/Downloads/appimage-trixie-amd64/squashfs-root/usr/bin/sc-controller'
Now, changing the usr/bin/env python in sc-controller to /usr/bin/env python solves this, because it no longer tries to load the AppImage-castrated env binary that relies on lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to exist, but we're not in runtime/compat where it resides.
So we get this wonderful error when launching directly, and the same issue will break the binary when launched through Python:
./env zsh: no such file or directory: ./env
Now, the scripts.py is launching it this way: https://github.com/C0rn3j/sc-controller/blob/5a8e3025f75c214a54db05d438e2bbab015cf057/scc/scripts.py#L28
This works on Python 3.12 and earlier, but not Python 3.13, since that now uses posix_spawn() by default in this situation - https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#subprocess
A workaround is to preface subprocess.Popen calls with:
subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN = False
Or replacing the shebang with the host's /usr/bin/env, if env is all you use in your shebangs.
What am I supposed to do here?