Pango-ERROR: Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

[sommd]

When trying to run the AppImage on Arch Linux with the latest version of Gnome/GDM and pango version 1.44.6 I get the following error:

(graphiql-app:7880): Pango-ERROR **: 21:51:08.309: Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Seems like the bundled version of harfbuzz is too old? I'm not familiar with AppImages so I'm not sure exactly which libraries it would be using.

[clpacheco90]

I'm getting the same error and I solved when downgraded pango to v1.42

[Crease29]

Same here on Fedora 31 (Kernel 5.3.16-300.fc31.x86_64). For more information see linked issue above this comment.

[sugata98]

I'm getting the same error and I solved when downgraded pango to v1.42

How did you downgrade it?

[clpacheco90]

via terminal I've installed pango-ubuntu
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pango-ubuntu

yay -S pango-ubuntu

Please make sure you have a backup before run it.

[dlford]

FYI downgrading pango breaks both nautilus and nemo file explorers on Manjaro latest. I have no other workaround at the moment but to use graphiql-app in VM.

[clpacheco90]

try to downgrade via terminal instead. if you use pamac to install any pango its really break not only your nemo or nautilus but manjaro too.

[dlford]

@clpacheco90 Thank you for the tip, still breaks the file browsers for me though. I'm trying to build from source instead without much luck. I may just table this until Ubuntu 20.04 is a little more mature and see if it'll run on that.

[tuanquynh0508]

Same Issue for me on Ubuntu 20.

[dlford]

@tuanquynh0508 Try the Kong/insomnia.rest project, it works for me, only downside is it doesn't support websockets/subscriptions.

[bendulum]

Same problem, no matter which graphiql-app version I try.

Linux 5.4.0-33-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

According to the comments here electron/electron#20348 the issue is fixed by updating to a newer version of Electron.

You could try:

• check out this repository locally
• navigate there and run npm i
• install electron https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/installation
• run npm i --save-dev electron-packager
• run npm i --save-dev electron-builder
• run npm run build
• run npm run package

But I couldn't get this to work myself.
Is this repository still being maintained?

[bendulum]

Here is a workaround / hack, continuing from the steps in my comment above.

Follow this guide https://codereviewvideos.com/blog/how-i-fixed-uglifyjs-unexpected-token-name-dropin/ to install uglifyjs-webpack-plugin (I used version 1.2.4), then update the make-webpack-config.js file accordingly (remove previous UglifyJs plugin and replace with the one from the link).

You also need to add this electron/electron#18139 (comment) to the electron config in main.js.

I also installed babel-preset-es2015 via npm i and then added es2015 to the list of presets in the .babelrc file. (Did not check if this is required)

After that I could do npm run dist and even though there were some errors in the console, it created a GraphiQL 0.7.2.AppImage file in the ./release directory.

Then I moved this file to my preferred location and ran sudo chmod +x "GraphiQL 0.7.2.AppImage" to make it executable. I can now use the app without getting the "Harfbuzz version too old" error.

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Alternatively use this app https://altair.sirmuel.design/ instead.

[tuanquynh0508]

@tuanquynh0508 Try the Kong/insomnia.rest project, it works for me, only downside is it doesn't support websockets/subscriptions.

Hi Dlford,
In fact, I switch to use https://altair.sirmuel.design/ It's very good.

[vegalou]

Met the same problem with old app. on new OS FOSSA(Xenial & Bionic not shows). Caused by new pango libary not match old application.

ig: starup in /u/tool/moeditor, run Moeditor shows the error message:

Pango-ERROR Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

check dependancies:

~# ldd Moeditor |grep pango
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e43c000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e2a2000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81cce8000)

Get OLD libpan*_VERSION.deb from https://packages.ubuntu.com/

libpango-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libs/libpango-1.0-0

libpangocairo-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangocairo-1.0-0

libpangoft2-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangoft2-1.0-0

extract those libs to root of Moeditor $PATH, ig:

~# ls libpa* -l
libpango-1.0.so.0 -> libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -> libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 -> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14

make sure the symbo link correct to right APP_ROOT path!!

That's all, Markdown Editor runs as on Xenial did before.

[mozo64]

Met the same problem with old app. on new OS FOSSA(Xenial & Bionic not shows). Caused by new pango libary not match old application.

ig: starup in /u/tool/moeditor, run Moeditor shows the error message:

Pango-ERROR Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

check dependancies:

~# ldd Moeditor |grep pango
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e43c000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e2a2000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81cce8000)

Get OLD libpan*_VERSION.deb from https://packages.ubuntu.com/

libpango-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libs/libpango-1.0-0

libpangocairo-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangocairo-1.0-0

libpangoft2-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangoft2-1.0-0

extract those libs to root of Moeditor $PATH, ig:

~# ls libpa* -l
libpango-1.0.so.0 -> libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -> libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 -> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14

make sure the symbo link correct to right APP_ROOT path!!

That's all, Markdown Editor runs as on Xenial did before.

Thank you, it actually works like a charm :)

[tst32]

https://github.com/altair-graphql/altair
https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer