Fedora 41 flatpak applications keep crashing

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After a recent update I noticed that flatpaks keep crashing when I try to launch them. Notably I believe all the ones I have tested that crash have been electron applications (steam, chromium, etc.) From the journalctl logs it looks they all seem to be caused by the libc.so.6 file which I think is part of the glibc package? Here’s an example

Nov 23 22:33:41 fedora systemd-coredump[4138]: [🡕] Process 3999 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.

                                               Stack trace of thread 563:
                                               #0  0x00007f8d30a4367a n/a (/run/parent/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x4267a)
                                               #1  0x00007f8d38386ef3 n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x6786ef3)
                                               #2  0x00007f8d398673da n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c673da)
                                               #3  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #4  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #5  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #6  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #7  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #8  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #9  0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #10 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #11 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #12 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #13 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #14 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #15 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #16 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)
                                               #17 0x00007f8d398679cb n/a (/home/marcus/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x7c679cb)

Haven’t been able to figure out what’s going on here. So far I’ve tried reinstalling the glibc package, and reinstalling flatpaks. I also tried rolling back my update with a dnf history rollback but I was unable to do that due to a bunch of package conflicts.

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I think I found out what it was. In case anyone’s running into the same problem, it’s the same thing happening in this older thread here.

I had to install a new cursor theme and use that for both my gnome and hyprland desktops. Very strange bug, not sure why it happens.

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