X11 crashes in some programs

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Hi everyone,
I am running a fresh install of Fedora 30 and installed NVIDIA 430.50 Driver for my NVIDIA GeForce MX130 (Optimus). When I open a file in GIMP or run a vnc in Remmina, X11 crashes.

Journalctl -r reports

Sep 23 14:01:58 localhost.localdomain PackageKit[2244]: uid 1000 obtained auth for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
Sep 23 14:01:58 localhost.localdomain PackageKit[2244]: uid 1000 is trying to obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (only_trusted:0)
Sep 23 14:01:58 localhost.localdomain gsd-color[2283]: failed to set screen _ICC_PROFILE: Failed to open file “/home/chall3ng3/.local/share/icc/edid-b8dd74a4e66d0aeebf430eb5a8c24ce2.icc”: Permission denied

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Further in Journalctl of last boot I found this. Could this be the culprit?

Sep 23 13:55:40 localhost.localdomain /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2117]: (II) Loading sub module “glamoregl”
Sep 23 13:55:40 localhost.localdomain /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2117]: (II) LoadModule: “glamoregl”
Sep 23 13:55:40 localhost.localdomain /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2117]: (WW) Warning, couldn’t open module glamoregl
Sep 23 13:55:40 localhost.localdomain /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2117]: (EE) modeset: Failed to load module “glamoregl” (module does not exist, 0)
Sep 23 13:55:40 localhost.localdomain /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2117]: (EE) modeset(G0): Failed to load glamor module.

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Give correct permision to your primus

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I do not have a primus running. My system should be offloading the graphics.

[chall3ng3@localhost ~]$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce MX130] (rev a2)

Offloading Graphics
Using the NVIDIA Driver with Optimus Laptops

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Turns out that if I start X server as user chall3ng3 instead of (root by default), I do not have problems using GIMP or Remmina.

I started fedora in CLI (multi-user mode) and started X to gather diagnostic data to NVIDIA as per requested (NVIDIA-If you have a problem, PLEASE read this first). When I ran “startx – -logverbose 6”, I was no longer able to replicate the problem.

What permission does the user chall3ng3 has that root doesn’t in regards to the file in question?

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Hmm so none of those journalctl messages seem to say anything particularly interesting; could you reproduce the issue (letting the Shell crash), then hit Ctrl-Alt-F3 from the login screen, sign in there, and run journalctl -b -e and look for any errors from gnome-shell in particular? I think journalctl -b -e _EXE=/usr/bin/gnome-shell should filter it but I can’t be 100% sure that command would do the trick.

Or for Xorg errors, I believe journalctl -b -e | grep EE would do a good job of filtering things down.

Also, do you have any Shell extensions enabled? If so, have you tried disabling them?

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There are no Shell extensions enabled.

For Gnome-Shell:

Sep 26 11:01:02 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: …/clutter/clutter/clutter-offscreen-effect.c:225: Unable to create an Offscreen buffer
Sep 26 11:01:02 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: …/clutter/clutter/clutter-offscreen-effect.c:225: Unable to create an Offscreen buffer

Sep 26 11:02:37 localhost.localdomain org.gimp.GIMP.desktop[2528]: gimp-2.10: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :99.0.

For X11:

The only thing I found was that my wacom touchscreen and stylus are not supported right now.

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The GIMP errors are just from Xorg or GNOME crashing.

Were there any other GNOME errors at all around those two Clutter ones? They seem rather suspect, but I can’t find anything on them right now…

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How about this?

This happened before Gnome-Shell started

Sep 26 11:00:17 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2042]: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 23]: reference to undefined property “MetaWindowX11”
Sep 26 11:00:26 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: g_dir_open_with_errno: assertion ‘path != NULL’ failed
Sep 26 11:00:26 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: g_filename_to_utf8: assertion ‘opsysstring != NULL’ failed
Sep 26 11:00:26 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: g_dir_open_with_errno: assertion ‘path != NULL’ failed
Sep 26 11:00:26 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: g_filename_to_utf8: assertion ‘opsysstring != NULL’ failed

This happened right before clutter error.

Sep 26 11:00:27 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: STACK_OP_ADD: window 0x2200001 already in stack
Sep 26 11:00:27 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: STACK_OP_ADD: window 0x2200001 already in stack
Sep 26 11:00:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: GNOME Shell started at Thu Sep 26 2019 11:00:27 GMT-0500 (CDT)

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Those Shell warnings seem rather docile (the environment ones should be [fixed in F31](“gappinfo: Add precondition checks to GAppLaunchContext env methods (!813) · Merge Requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab” gappinfo: Add precondition checks to GAppLaunchContext env methods (!813) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab). Were there any other lines at all between the offscreen buffer errors and when GIMP lost the X server? :neutral_face:

Also , another idea: what does coredumpctl list -r show for the first 5 or so core dumps?

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These are the lines between offload buffer error and GIMP lost the X server.

Sep 26 11:01:02 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: …/clutter/clutter/clutter-offscreen-effect.c:225: Unable to create an Offscreen buffer
Sep 26 11:01:02 localhost.localdomain gnome-shell[2528]: …/clutter/clutter/clutter-offscreen-effect.c:225: Unable to create an Offscreen buffer
Sep 26 11:02:31 localhost.localdomain org.gimp.GIMP.desktop[2528]: GIMP-Message: Some fonts failed to load:
Sep 26 11:02:31 localhost.localdomain org.gimp.GIMP.desktop[2528]: - /app/share/gimp/2.0/fonts/
Sep 26 11:02:37 localhost.localdomain org.gimp.GIMP.desktop[2528]: gimp-2.10: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :99.0.

The Result of command requested

TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE
Mon 2019-09-23 14:40:43 CDT 3922 1000 1000 11 present /usr/bin/abrt-applet
Mon 2019-09-23 13:35:52 CDT 1408 1000 1000 11 present /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
Mon 2019-09-23 13:35:43 CDT 1264 1000 1000 11 present /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
Thu 2019-09-19 14:11:10 CDT 3405 1000 1000 6 missing /usr/bin/nautilus
Wed 2019-09-18 16:51:43 CDT 3554 993 988 11 missing /usr/libexec/geoclue

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This…continues to get weirder, there are absolutely no errors there.

One question I do have: how did you install the NVIDIA driver? Also, do you actually use the nvidia hardware on Linux, or do you have e.g. a VM with GPU passthrough or a dual boot setup? If you’re not actually using the card here, you can disable it entirely in Linux land and just use the iGPU instead.

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I installed NVIDIA driver by using Fedora 30/29/28 nVidia Drivers Install Guide followed up for offloading graphics instructions Chapter 33. Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4.

I do use the NVIDIA graphics for more Intel processing power availability and lower RAM usage.

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Ugh, that guide is terrible, yet it’s somehow the top Google result… I see it break random stuff all the time.

First off, follow these directions to uninstall that variant. Then:

Note: make sure you’ve run a full system upgrade and rebooting into the latest kernel before installing the nvidia driver, omitting that is a common mistake that leads to it not being loaded.

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So, I am still having the same problem in GIMP… Same info as gathered with NVIDIA 430.50

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Ack, is this running under optirun or running under the Intel GPU?

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It is running under the NVIDIA driver and offload graphics onto the Intel GPU. I have discovered that Nouveau Driver is working. I will stick with this until the end of this academic semester. Then, I plan to come back and try to get the NVIDIA driver up and running again.

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