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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.

@akstrfn: it looks like it was a conflict when looking of the GL library, which I have one in /usr/lib and and another one in /usr/lib/nvidia/

mopdifying in PKGBUILD the relevent line to include the nvidia directory fixes the issue: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia/:/usr/lib/:/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/:/usr/lib/qt/

As others commented before me, I also have a crash when opening PDFs inside Mendeley, but I'm used to opening them externally, so for the moment this is a secondary issue.

https://github.com/mchwalisz/mendeleydesktop_aur/commit/53f6d475313da04ac3b7e7a281fbf62e0e6e0406

This woks for me, try it if you can't wait.

Just git and makepkg -si.

what does cd /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/ && ldd mendeleydesktop.x86_64 | grep -i gl output? Probably nothing meaningfull but I am curious to compare with what I have.

Also did you google for failed to load driver: swrast Could not initialize GLX?

I just updated to the latest versions (complete system upgrade, plus updated mendeleydesktop), but now when I try to start Mendeley I get:

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast Could not initialize GLX

But glxgears, for example, works without any issues.

Any idea?

I also get the same crash when double clicking a paper. Could this be the reason? Installing aur package booktab resolves the libPDFNetC issue but it still crashes.

ldd /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 ... libPDFNetC.so => not found ... libMendeley.so.1.19 => not found ...

Using Mendeley's annotation system is not safe since they separate annotations from pdfs: https://blog.mendeley.com/2018/06/27/update-on-the-missing-pdf-issue/

The segfault seems to originate from qtwidget and the most likely reason is that mendeley bundles qt 5.10 and arch now has 5.11. I was hoping that with the fix of CPU bug they will update qt but unfortunately that was not the case. You could also notice that mendeley works fine with 5.11, which is expected since qt is backwards compatible, but the bundled pdf sdk does not.

In addition to this mendeley seems to have had some major bugs in the latest release (such as erasing your whole library if you didn't sync pdf's with their servers), which you can check on their support page.

I would also advise against using their annotation system if you don't sync with their servers exclusively. I lost a lot of annotations once and I never use their pdf stuff from then on.

Using mendeley runtime libraries is a workaround for the problem. It is suboptimal as the install size goes to ~400MB. Somebody would need to pinpoint the exact library that causes the signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR.

You can test it under https://github.com/mchwalisz/mendeleydesktop_aur/commit/53f6d475313da04ac3b7e7a281fbf62e0e6e0406

Crashed with similar messages as of @p1gd0g when I tried to open a pdf.

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.