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I will maintain this until it stops working, but this package should be considered "legacy" and the new Reference Manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mendeley-reference-manager) preferred.

More Info: https://blog.mendeley.com/category/new-release-2/

To avoid crashs when opening PDF's, and hangout on exit install mendeleydesktop-bundled which packages Qt provided by the upstream.

After updating the package, mendeley crashed when I double-clicked a paper.

[p1gd0g@p1gd0g-pc ~]$ mendeleydesktop 
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
Failed to run mendeley:// link handler installer "/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh"
[0613/130003.681323:WARNING:stack_trace_posix.cc(699)] Failed to open file: /home/p1gd0g/#9465539 (deleted)
  Error: 没有那个文件或目录 (can't find the file or direction)
[4826:4826:0613/130003.718694:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1019)] Lost UI shared context.
D-Bus global menu: no
Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 000000000020
#0 0x7faa84eb8abe <unknown>
#1 0x7faa84eb8bd0 <unknown>
#2 0x7faa84eb9207 <unknown>
#3 0x7faa8a377a80 <unknown>
#4 0x7faa8257dd85 <unknown>
#5 0x7faa8257dea4 <unknown>
#6 0x7faa82507489 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#7 0x7faa825071ad QWidgetPrivate::setStyle_helper()
#8 0x7faa82507423 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#9 0x7faa825071ad QWidgetPrivate::setStyle_helper()
#10 0x7faa82507423 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#11 0x7faa825071ad QWidgetPrivate::setStyle_helper()
#12 0x7faa82507423 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#13 0x7faa825071ad QWidgetPrivate::setStyle_helper()
#14 0x7faa82507423 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#15 0x7faa825071ad QWidgetPrivate::setStyle_helper()
#16 0x7faa82507423 QWidgetPrivate::inheritStyle()
#17 0x7faa8251845e QWidget::setParent()
#18 0x7faa826893f1 <unknown>
#19 0x00000086b547 PdfViewerTab::stealDetailsPane()
#20 0x000000848edc MainWindowTabViewController::handleTabChange()
#21 0x00000075e84b <unknown>
#22 0x7faa81791a0c QMetaObject::activate()
#23 0x7faa8268c58f QTabBar::currentChanged()
#24 0x7faa82690c92 QTabBar::setCurrentIndex()
#25 0x00000082a8d9 MainWindow::openViewerTab()
#26 0x00000075fb0c <unknown>
#27 0x7faa81791a0c QMetaObject::activate()
#28 0x000000b4834a DocumentFileFetcher::fileForInternalViewer()
#29 0x000000a80204 DocumentFileFetcher::openLocalFile()
#30 0x000000a80c8c DocumentFileFetcher::open()
#31 0x00000081e25b MainWindow::openDocumentFile()
#32 0x00000081e308 MainWindow::openDocumentFile()
#33 0x00000075fbb8 <unknown>
#34 0x7faa817922e2 QObject::event()
#35 0x7faa8251750c QWidget::event()
#36 0x7faa8262f8b5 QMainWindow::event()
#37 0x7faa824d7984 QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper()
#38 0x7faa824df25b QApplication::notify()
#39 0x7faa81767bc9 QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2()
#40 0x7faa8176ac5c QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents()
#41 0x7faa817bb864 <unknown>
#42 0x7faa7efe7368 g_main_context_dispatch
#43 0x7faa7efe75b1 <unknown>
#44 0x7faa7efe763e g_main_context_iteration
#45 0x7faa817bae49 QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents()
#46 0x7faa6c56eb32 <unknown>
#47 0x7faa8176685c QEventLoop::exec()
#48 0x7faa8176eb56 QCoreApplication::exec()
#49 0x00000073d913 main
#50 0x7faa8082706b __libc_start_main
#51 0x000000740379 _start
  r8: 0000000000000000  r9: ffffffffffffffff r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 0000000000000000
 r12: 00007fffa6052470 r13: 0000000002ba70c8 r14: 0000000000000208 r15: 0000000002ac98c0
  di: 0000000000000000  si: 0000000000000000  bp: 0000000002ba7088  bx: 00000000036bc0e0
  dx: 0000000000000001  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 0000000000000000  sp: 00007fffa6052470
  ip: 00007faa8257dd85 efl: 0000000000010202 cgf: 002b000000000033 erf: 0000000000000004
 trp: 000000000000000e msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000020
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.

@xgdgsc but at least you can open a pdf inside mendeley

@ecruzolivera I tried and still get the 100% CPU issue.

this was how i solve it:

tar xvf mendeleydesktop-1.19-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
cd mendeleydesktop-1.19-linux-x86_64/
rm INSTALL LICENSE README
sudo rm -rf /opt/mendeleydesktop/*
sudo cp -R * /opt/mendeleydesktop/

To the maintainer, thanks for doing this, really, because of people like you that care enough to invest time and effort, is why Arch is so f... good. And now a little suggestion:

So... I know that the nix way is to use the shared libraries because of the memory usage and all that... but but, i think that the nix way is also the KISS way, and just stop the libraries gymnastics, and only unpack the entire package in /opt/mendeley and KEEP the package original libraries that the Mendeley developers bundle in the tar file. Doing that will make this package much more maintainable. Regards

@a.salton I am having the same issue as @p1gd0g and your suggested work around unfortunately does not solve the pdf crashing issue. Downloading the generic version as @akstrfn suggested does work.

In my experience, commenting lines 24 to 26 and 42 to 45 from the PKGBUILD is enough to make it work using the bundled libraries, as a temporary workaround. EDIT: as @halfhorn pointed out, go with the generic version.

@akstrfn Thanks for your work and explanation.

@p1gd0g no way atm when using shared libraries. Breakage occured when Qt 5.11 was pushed. So lets wait for CPU bugfix and hopefully they recompile with 5.11. The problem seems to be in their bundled PDF library which btw increased a lot in size in the last version.

You can always download mendeley generic linux and run it. It will add some stuff to you $HOME dir but you can clean that up when we push new version.

Unable to open pdf. Same error on my laptop. Both are Manjaro. Any easy way to install last version?

I'm now able to reproduce the crash so in the next weeks I will check it. CPU bug has to be fixed upstream.

mendeley creates some stuff in $HOME (.local and .cache). You can find and erase the ones you dont want find ~ -iname "*mendeley*".