[Solved] Unable to launch 4.5.1 AppImage, Invalid ABI Version

• Apr 10, 2025 - 01:37

Arch Linux 6.14.1-arch1-1
x86_64
FUSE confirmed working
AppImage is mounted without noexec
Checksum is valid

File: MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
Downloaded from https://musescore.org/en/download

Issue
Error when attempting to launch the AppImage from terminal:

./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
bash: ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: No such file or directory

And an error When invoking directly with the loader (ABI version invalid):

/usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
error while loading shared libraries: ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: ELF file ABI version invalid

When running readelf on the AppImage (note ABI Version 65):

readelf -h ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 41 49 02 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 65
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x405fc8
Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 191680 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 11
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 32
Section header string table index: 31

Additional note: extracting the AppImage, --appimage-extract works properly. When running ./AppRun within the extracted folder to bypass FUSE, the program launches properly.
I also tried APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 environment variable when launching the AppImage, but the error persisted.

Solution
Issue solved by manually patching the ELF header (replacing byte at offset 8 from \x41 to \x00 using:

printf "\x00" | dd of=MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage bs=1 seek=8 conv=notrunc

MuseScore now launches properly via ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage

Impact:
Issue prevents the self-mounting mechanism of the AppImage from working, although the application itself runs fine if extracted.

Comments

• Apr 17, 2025 - 18:39

Hi there,
I tried the suggested correction:

olav@XPS-13-9310:~/Applications$ printf "\x00" | dd of=MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage bs=1 seek=8 conv=notrunc
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte copied, 7,271e-05 s, 13,8 kB/s
olav@XPS-13-9310:~/Applications$ ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
bash: ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: Permission denied

so I ticked the box of the appimage to allow it to run as a program, but there must be something I missed:

olav@XPS-13-9310:~/Applications$ ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
bash: ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

Any help welcome, but at the moment I am stuck and cannot use the 4.5 version on any of my linux computers

Reply

• Apr 17, 2025 - 18:56

second attempt after a fresh download gave this:

olav@XPS-13-9310:~/Downloads$ printf "\x00" | dd of=MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage bs=1 seek=8 conv=notrunc
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte copied, 6,7729e-05 s, 14,8 kB/s
olav@XPS-13-9310:~/Downloads$ ./MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib)
/home/olav/Downloads/MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: Using fallback for library 'libjack.so.0'
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib)
/home/olav/Downloads/MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: Using fallback for library 'libnss3.so'
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/findlib)
/home/olav/Downloads/MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1.250800846-x86_64.AppImage: Using fallback for library 'libOpenGL.so.0'
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libsndfile.so.1)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libFLAC.so.8)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libxkbcommon.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libdbus-1.so.3)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libdbus-1.so.3)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libsystemd.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libsystemd.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libsystemd.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libkrb5.so.3)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libkrb5.so.3)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libk5crypto.so.3)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libkrb5support.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libkrb5support.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.32' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/liblzma.so.5)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/liblzma.so.5)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libcap.so.2)
/tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/mscore4portable: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_MuseSczqULB5/bin/../lib/libgcrypt.so.20)

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