Unable to load shared library 'git2-7ce88e6' or one of its dependencies.

[Standret]

Hi there,

So I've encountered with a quite strange problem when I tried to run my program on ubuntu. As you can see in the log below the app crashes each time when trying to invoke any method from libgit, and it is quite strange cause this project works on Windows10 perfectly.

The type initializer for 'LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods' threw an exception.
   at LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods.git_clone(git_repository*& repo, String origin_url, FilePath workdir_path, GitCloneOptions& opts)
   at LibGit2Sharp.Core.Proxy.git_clone(String url, String workdir, GitCloneOptions& opts) in C:\projects\libgit2sharp\LibGit2Sharp\Core\Proxy.cs:line 275
   at LibGit2Sharp.Repository.Clone(String sourceUrl, String workdirPath, CloneOptions options) in C:\projects\libgit2sharp\LibGit2Sharp\Repository.cs:line 779
   at Stt.GitSync.Infrastructure.Managers.RepositoriesManager.CloneIfNotExists(ConfigurationData data) in /home/grimm/Documents/SE/C#/SttGitSync/Stt.GitSync/Infrastructure/Managers/RepositoriesManager.cs:line 96

Unable to load shared library 'git2-7ce88e6' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: libgit2-7ce88e6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   at LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods.git_libgit2_init()
   at LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods.InitializeNativeLibrary() in C:\projects\libgit2sharp\LibGit2Sharp\Core\NativeMethods.cs:line 78
   at LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods..cctor() in C:\projects\libgit2sharp\LibGit2Sharp\Core\NativeMethods.cs:line 56

Reproduction steps

Try to use any LibGit2 method and you get this error

Expected behavior

Repository is cloned

Actual behavior

Exception is raised

Version of LibGit2Sharp (release number or SHA1)

<PackageReference Include="LibGit2Sharp" Version="0.26.1" />
<PackageReference Include="LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries" Version="2.0.289" />

Operating system(s) tested; .NET runtime tested

ubuntu 19.04
netcoreapp2.2

[montague247]

Hi,

the same issue on my Mac.
10.14.5 (18F132) (Mojave)

On windows everything works fine.

Rolling back to 0.26.0 works.

Best regards

[Standret]

Hmm, I've tried to create the empty project which just clones the public repository. and this error occurs again and again, and the version of libgit does not matter. I've also attached my .csproj, probably I've done something wrong.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="LibGit2Sharp" Version="0.26.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="System.Reactive" Version="4.1.3" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

[toanxyz]

I have the same issue too when running in Azure Functions

[AleksandrSor]

Apparently, lib2git cant find correct native binaries so I helped it with this trick
I had all needed binaries in /app/runtimes/ so i added env variable into my Dockerfile
like this

FROM base AS final

ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/app/runtimes/debian.9-x64/native/

work for dotnet core 3.0 (aspnet:3.0-buster-slim)

[jayakumarj85]

As of now libgit2sharp provides the native libraries for the following linux distributions,
win-x86
win-x64
win-arm64
win
unix
ubuntu.18.04-x64
ubuntu.16.04-arm64
rhel-x64
osx
linux-x64
fedora-x64
debian.9-x64
debian-arm64
alpine.3.9-x64
alpine-x64

In such case using ubuntu 19.04 is not going to work. Try using Ubuntu 18.04 and see if it works.

Otherwise try switching to any of the above mentioned linux distributions.

[matilote]

/root/.nuget/packages/gitversiontask/5.1.2/build/GitVersionTask.targets(10,9): error : PlatformNotSupportedException: debian.9-arm64
Tried different arm64 distributions with no luck.

[xJonathanLEI]

Encountered the same issue when running in Docker. Changed my runtime from:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:3.1

to

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:3.1-bionic

solves the problem.

[nZeus]

I tried mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1-bionic and it works! 🎉

[paulostradioti]

For me, it worked with mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1-alpine and mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/runtime:3.1-alpine.

Thanks

[ahmedhammad97]

Looks like the problem is that the binary git2-7ce88e6 is built to the wrong directory, so the program is not able to load it when it look for it in the right one.

What worked for me was adding an MSBuild PostBuildEvent to .csproj which copies the git2-7ce88e6 binary from the directory it was built, to the directory it is expected to run from.
These directories might differ, so it is better to check them manually.

[trondhindenes]

Try using Ubuntu 18.04

this is becoming a problem. Is there any plan to support newer ubuntu versions than 18.x?

[bording]

this is becoming a problem. Is there any plan to support newer ubuntu versions than 18.x?

It's not really sustainable to be constantly chasing support for newer platforms for a number of reasons. There needs to be a native binary compiled to match the versions of the dependencies on the distro.

There are plans to sidestep the entire problem by removing as many dependencies as possible from the native binary, enabling a single linux binary to work with most/all distros.

The biggest piece of work remaining to enable this is #1618.

[patrolez]

Regarding newer Ubuntu:
#1714 (comment)

The most latest NuGet release 0.27-preview works correctly.

The reason is that since Ubuntu Eoan OpenSSL 1.0 was completely removed from shipping within distro.
The same is about the newest Debian.

Shipping a libgit2 linked against OpenSSL 1.1 does the work.
#1747 (comment)

[capraynor]

Same issue here. This library won't work on Azure app service, Linux.
Doing the following settings can solve this issue:

[tjmoore]

Raspbian buster (Debian 10 based) has the same Unable to load shared library 'git2-7ce88e6'

I'm using Nuke to build and it's failing on GitVersion which is using LibGit2Shap.

To be fair, building on a Raspberry Pi is not practical. Much better to cross compile for ARM. It was just curiosity really. Though it does mean I can't use GitVersion from the command line on the pi either. GitTools/GitVersion#2260

[gitfool]

@tjmoore I use Cake and GitVersion, which is a similar setup. You should be able to get it to work by pre-installing GitVersion and patching LD_LIBRARY_PATH, before calling Nuke, with a variant of @AleksandrSor's workaround.

See gitfool/Cake.Dungeon@0655e23 for my workaround for the GitLab shared Linux runners which are now based on Debian 10.

[jessicah]

Official .NET 5.0 Docker images are using Debian 10 now, so it'd be nice to see that added to the list of supported platforms. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack does work though...

[bigpod98]

cmon fix this

[bording]

@bigpod98 This should be fixed with the latest preview release.

[bigpod98]

@bording after i vented my frustration i looked at other issues a bit closly and i found that i should use preview release and it worksy was just about to remove my frustrated comment

[bording]

Since the latest preview release should have fixed this, I'm going to go ahead and close it.

[csurfleet]

I'm on the latest preview (0.27.0-preview-0007) and this is not working on aspnet:5.0-buster-slim, which according to: https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-dotnet-aspnet is a debian 10 image. Could someone advise on the preview version/dotnet5 image combo I should be using please?

[bording]

@csurfleet The latest preview version is 0.27.0-preview-0119, so give that a try.

[dradovic]

@bording I'm experiencing the same problem with 0.27.0-preview-0119 on the Bitbucket CI/CD infrastructure. Unfortunately, it's not appearing consistently (I guess it depends what actual build agent is chosen to build the solution). The error I'm seeing sporadically is:

System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for 'LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods' threw an exception.
---- System.DllNotFoundException : Unable to load shared library 'git2-8a0dc67' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: libgit2-8a0dc67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

As this is a closed issue, I've opened #1914 for this.

[aziz-shahed-cko]

As of now libgit2sharp provides the native libraries for the following linux distributions, win-x86 win-x64 win-arm64 win unix ubuntu.18.04-x64 ubuntu.16.04-arm64 rhel-x64 osx linux-x64 fedora-x64 debian.9-x64 debian-arm64 alpine.3.9-x64 alpine-x64

In such case using ubuntu 19.04 is not going to work. Try using Ubuntu 18.04 and see if it works.

Otherwise try switching to any of the above mentioned linux distributions.

Where can I find this list?
I was able to make gitversion work using libssl1.1. But it does not work for Ubuntu 20.04.
If I could find the updated list for libgit2sharp , I could figure out which image I can use it with

[jayakumarj85]

As of now libgit2sharp provides the native libraries for the following linux distributions, win-x86 win-x64 win-arm64 win unix ubuntu.18.04-x64 ubuntu.16.04-arm64 rhel-x64 osx linux-x64 fedora-x64 debian.9-x64 debian-arm64 alpine.3.9-x64 alpine-x64
In such case using ubuntu 19.04 is not going to work. Try using Ubuntu 18.04 and see if it works.
Otherwise try switching to any of the above mentioned linux distributions.

Where can I find this list? I was able to make gitversion work using libssl1.1. But it does not work for Ubuntu 20.04. If I could find the updated list for libgit2sharp , I could figure out which image I can use it with

Way back in 2019 when I posted this answer, I was using LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries v2.0.289 and libgit2sharp was providing the native libraries for the distributions I have mentioned. You can look at the list here under runtimes directory in the following link https://nuget.info/packages/LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries/2.0.289

The latest version of libgit2sharp v0.27.0-preview-0119 has a dependency on LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries v2.0.315-alpha.0.1, the native libraries supported can be found here https://nuget.info/packages/LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries/2.0.315-alpha.0.1

If you are using libgit2sharp v0.26.2, then it has a dependency on LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries v2.0.306, the native libraries supported can be found here https://nuget.info/packages/LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries/2.0.306

[Eternal21]

Hitting the same problem trying to run LibGit2Sharp in AWS lambda

EDIT: Managed to hack around the issue based on advice from these two comments:
aws/aws-lambda-dotnet#716 (comment)

...That is, I believe that the linux-x64 runtime libgit2-ef5a385.so is incompatible with AWS Linux. On the other hand, the rhel-x64 runtime works.

#1823 (comment)

The rhel-x64 runtime version of libgit2-ef5a385.so works on Amazon Linux 2.

The libgit2-106a5f2.so included with .NET 6 runtime, does not work with AWS. The workaround is to replace the published libgit2-106a5f2.so with the rhel-64/native one, located in: .nuget\packages\libgit2sharp.nativebinaries\2.0.306\runtimes\rhel-x64\native

You need to replace the so after the project is published, but obviously before you zip it and upload it to AWS. Again based on the above comment I used the following msbuild code for .NET 6 (edit your ...Lambda.csjproj file):

<Project>
   ...
    <Target Name="GitLib2SharpFix" AfterTargets="Publish">
        <!--See: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp/issues/1703#issuecomment-1364750879 -->
        <Exec Command="copy &quot;$(ProjectDir)bin\Release\net6.0\runtimes\rhel-x64\native\libgit2-106a5f2.so&quot; &quot;bin\Release\net6.0\publish\libgit2-106a5f2.so&quot;"/>
    </Target>
</Project>

[MahdiKarimipour]

0.27.0-preview

Upgrading to the preview fixed the "Unable to load shared library 'git2-106a5f2' or one of its dependencies"

As I was on alpine, it gave me another error that it is unable to load ssl/open ssl libraries, which I suspect is because alpine is lightweight. I switched to focal version and that fixed the ssl problem too.

[OskiKervinen-MF]

I found a work around for this, when using the dotnet:sdk6.0-alpine image. I used strace to determine it was loading the library from /app/runtimes/alpine.3.9-x64/native/libgit2-106a5f2.so. So I installed libgit2 from apk and overrode that file with the system version. This is what it looks like in a Dockerfile:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0-alpine

RUN apk add git libgit2
COPY my_app/bin/Release/net6/publish/ /app/
RUN cp /usr/lib/libgit2.so.1.5 /app/runtimes/alpine.3.9-x64/native/libgit2-106a5f2.so

I would expect this sort of approach to work for any base image that can install a system libgit2, since the system libgit2 will be compatible with the system, while the native-managed invocations won't be tightly coupled, meaning the precise version of libgit2 isn't relevant to LibGit2Sharp, as long as all the entry points it calls are present.