Does anyone have a Raspberry Pi handy running arm64 Raspbian, Ubuntu (or similar) and would be willing to install a snap from the store to test if it launches and runs okay?
Specifically (long story short), the Asahi (Linux on Apple Silicon) team chose a different kernel page size for the distro. As such, some applications, when built for arm64 compatible CPUs (like the M1 in my Mac) don’t work because they’re built for a different (more common ‘standard’) 4K page size.
One example is the Telegram Desktop snap found at Install Telegram Desktop on Linux | Snap Store. The upstream developers appear cautious about switching to a 16K page size for Telegram when it only affects a small percentage of users.
I want to provide some helpful feedback that a snap built for a 16K page size works fine on a 4K page size system. But I don’t have any non-Asahi Arm64-capable devices with a desktop GUI on them I figured some of you fine people might.
For example, the Telegram Asahi snap (which I built directly on my M1 Mac) works fine on Ubuntu Asahi) (16K page size). But I don’t know if it works on (for example) a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian or Ubuntu Arm64.
The ask
On a Pi or similar device, please snap install telegram-asahi and give the application a shake. In theory, it should work just fine, like the telegram-desktop snap.
Any feedback would be most welcome in this endeavour.
Just to test I’ve run it upto welcome screen with no shakes. That part works and visually looks okay. (Once a while it finishes with “Segmentation fault” on an older linux/snapd. Probably that’s connected with outdated hardware/software in this case).
note: it was arm64 hardware, but not Raspberry
$ arch
aarch64
$ uname -srm
Linux 5.10.69-12-amlogic-g98700611d064 aarch64
$ lsb_release -irc
Distributor ID: Debian
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
$ getconf PAGESIZE
4096
$ dpkg -s snapd | egrep 'Vers|Arch'
Architecture: arm64
Version: 2.57.6-1+b5
$ snap list | grep teleg
telegram-asahi 4.15.1 13 latest/stable popey -
$ /snap/bin/telegram-asahi
(telegram-desktop:6380): dbind-WARNING **: 15:38:25.369: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to connect PipeWire event context (errno: 112)
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "stateChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "connectivityChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMConnectivityState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "deviceTypeChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMDeviceType
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "meteredChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMMetered
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QWidget::render: Cannot render with an inactive painter
Segmentation fault
$ arch
aarch64
$ uname -srm
Linux 6.7.9-edge-sunxi64 aarch64
$ lsb_release -irc
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble
$ getconf PAGESIZE
4096
$ dpkg -s snapd | egrep 'Vers|Arch'
Architecture: arm64
Version: 2.60.4+23.10
$ snap list | grep teleg
telegram-asahi 4.15.1 13 latest/stable popey -
$ /snap/bin/telegram-asahi
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to connect PipeWire event context (errno: 112)
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "stateChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "connectivityChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMConnectivityState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "deviceTypeChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMDeviceType
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "meteredChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMMetered
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QWidget::render: Cannot render with an inactive painter
qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal QPlatformNativeInterface::systemTrayWindowChanged(QScreen*)
