Volt crashes on startup with "UnknownError"

[thelifeandtimes]

Description

volt dev  ? ❯ volt
{
  "name": "UnknownError",
  "data": {
    "message": "Error: initdb failed: /home/thelifeandtimes/.local/share/voltcode/postgres/17.7/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.73: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\n\n    at <anonymous> (src/session/lcm/embedded-postgres.ts:181:17)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)"
  }
}

volt dev  ? ❯

Plugins

None, but i do have opencode installed separately in the off chance that there is some conflict there?

VoltCode version

0.6.0-dev-202602252203

Steps to reproduce

README.md install instructions were slightly off as voltropy/voltcode doesn't exist (or at least isn't public), and the arch / path creation script was a little bit off, so I took these steps after getting bun 1.3.6 installed (repo didn't like 1.3.9):

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Martian-Engineering/volt.git
cd volt

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Run in development mode
bun dev

# Build a standalone executable (current platform only)
./packages/voltcode/script/build.ts --single

# Install it
arch="$(uname -m)"
case "$arch" in
  x86_64) arch=x64 ;;
  aarch64) arch=arm64 ;;
esac

cp "packages/voltcode/dist/voltcode-$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-$arch/bin/volt" \
   ~/.voltcode/bin/volt

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Operating System

Arch Linux (Omarchy)

Terminal

Ghostty

[rabsef-bicrym]

@thelifeandtimes could you please repeat your behavior on our pr branch that we believe will fix for it?

[hoclun-rigsep]

Just reinstalled, volt --version == 0.6.2, looks like that release contains this fix, same problem. Also running up-to-date Omarchy/Arch.

[hoclun-rigsep]

my mistake, maybe #8 didn't land in 0.6.2

[thelifeandtimes]

We got it working on be8c027f but i did have to add a mise.toml to force bun 1.3.6. Sounds like you were able to get it to reinstall anyways? Steps that worked were:

  # 1) Make sure to be testing the PR branch binary, not release v0.6.1
  cd /path/to/volt
  git fetch origin
  git switch fix/issue-7-arch-embedded-postgres
  git pull --ff-only

  # 2) Build current-platform binary
  bun install
  ./packages/voltcode/script/build.ts --single

  # 3) Copy the correct artifact (x86_64 must map to x64)
  ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/x64/' -e 's/aarch64/arm64/')"
  OS="$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
  mkdir -p ~/.voltcode/bin
  cp "packages/voltcode/dist/voltcode-${OS}-${ARCH}/bin/volt" ~/.voltcode/bin/volt

  # 4) Force use of that binary (avoid old PATH entries)
  hash -r                                              # omarchy doesn't use hash, this step should technically be unnecessary
  ~/.voltcode/bin/volt --version

  # 5) Remove previously broken embedded postgres install and retest
  rm -rf ~/.local/share/voltcode/postgres
  ~/.voltcode/bin/volt --print-logs