My father-in-law recently bought a Chromebook specifically for running RoasTime, but he is unfamiliar with ChromeOS so he reached out to me for help installing it. He wants to know if RoasTime can run on the computer or whether he needs to return it by the end of the 30-day return period. The Chromebook runs on a MediaTek Kompanio processor which has arm64 architecture, so I downloaded the 4.13.6 ARM AppImage for Linux and attempted to install it.
The installation appears to have been successful, but I started encountering issues when running the program from the command line. I resolved a few issues by installing some shared libraries that were missing, at which point it appeared that the app would start running. However, after a few seconds, the same error begins printing to the command line over and over: “Error reading /home//.config/roastim/deps: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/home//.config/roastime/deps”. This message continues to print until I kill the process.
I notice this error is somewhat similar to the build issue that was being reported earlier in the year, but this seems to be the reverse problem. The deps directory never gets created at all. I navigated to the path described, and the furthest I could get was the roastime directory, which is actually generated as “RoasTime”, but the issue doesn’t appear to just come down to this deiscrepancy in capitalization. I attempted to modify the RoasTime directory name to match the missing directory, and manually added a deps directory, but continued to receive the same errors.