Flatpak oddities and failures - canberra-gtk-module and pk-gtk-module

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I don’t have a good idea of why this is happening, but launching (for instance Chromium) results in a completely transparent window opening, never displaying anything, and twitching out Gnome WM a bit. Launching from Terminal results in the below failed module loads along with a series of cascading errors.

Somewhere along this process I also ran the following command to install (and then remove) this package: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

I can’t exactly remember the sequence of events, but I believe there was an issue with a flatpak app that I isntalled the above to correct (maybe Signal) and then I installed Chromium and it also failed, so I removed xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, thinking it may be related, and Chromium is still an issue (and so too is Signal).

At any rate, I found another topic on here where reinstalling Fedora was the fix, which… I’m not really interested in. Any advice or leads appreciated.

flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium
Gtk-Message: 09:55:17.899: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 09:55:17.899: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 09:55:17.899: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 09:55:17.899: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[34:34:0215/095518.016771:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(385)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[2:39:0215/095520.974189:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(227)] START: ReportBluetoothAvailability(). If you don't see the END: message, this is crbug.com/1216328.
[2:39:0215/095520.974202:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(230)] END: ReportBluetoothAvailability()
[0215/095548.017709:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
[65:8:0215/095548.022507:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(125)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.
[65:12:0215/095548.022658:ERROR:node_controller.cc(585)] Trying to re-add dropped peer 8A85EBAA83BEE272.75176EAC0C58FCFB
[66:21:0215/095548.022917:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(125)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.
[2:2:0215/095548.043559:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(978)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[151:151:0215/095548.087078:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(385)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[151:151:0215/095548.117001:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[0215/095618.087505:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
[65:20:0215/095618.093270:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(125)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.
[2:2:0215/095618.121715:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(978)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[170:170:0215/095618.165160:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(385)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[170:170:0215/095618.199808:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[170:170:0215/095618.212761:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[0215/095818.166293:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
[65:20:0215/095818.169557:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(328)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
[2:2:0215/095818.169643:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(328)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
[2:2:0215/095818.185453:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(978)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
[kyconway@tower ~]$ sudo flatpak repair
[sudo] password for kyconway: 
[124/125] Verifying flathub:runtime/org.kde.Platform.Locale/x86_64/5.15-21.08…
Checking remotes...
Pruning objects
Erasing .removed
(failed reverse-i-search)`': ^C
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I had a quick look at the Chromium FlatHub repository, and there are a number of issues similar to what you have here (By the way, can I please request you to paste text instead of putting it in screenshots—screenshots cannot be searched for terms, and they are not accessible to visually impaired users either).

This seems to be the most recent discussion. Can you try the workaround there?

Note that it seems when using the Flatpak, you need to keep up with the changing command line flags etc. So it’s probably best to start looking at whatever resources they mention in that post.

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Thanks @ankursinha ! I’ve updated the post with text output (thank you!). Thanks also for the links. I’ll poke around there and see what can be done. I’ve really enjoyed flatpaks and never seen this before F35, but perhaps as default store installs move that way this was the result.

Will report back here if I’m able to figure out a resolution!

Thanks!

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Never displaying? Or displaying after a long time? For me it’s the latter since quite a long time. I use Google Chrome from Flathub unstable, but I can reproduce the same problem on Chromium flatpak. I reported it last November here:
https://github.com/flathub/com.google.Chrome/issues/98

Interestingly, IIRC this happens to me only on my desktop PC and not on my laptop. Or maybe it’s less evident on my laptop because it’s faster. Perhaps a different graphic card may have an impact here? My laptop has only one SSD disk, while my desktop currently has SSD for root and HDD for home partition.

I didn’t have time nor motivation to investigate it further.

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Mine never displays. It’s just a transparent rectangle (and I can see where the edges should be, probably a gnome WM thing?) and it glitches out (like it can’t find the correct size because of display issues).

It’s odd.

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