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#445 [Kinoite] kwin_wayland crashes upon start after `rpm-ostree upgrade` on clean install
Closed: Can't fix by siosm. Opened by timonlukas.

Closed: Can't fix
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Describe the bug

I installed Kinoite today, and things worked fine directly after the install. After executing rpm-ostree upgrade and rebooting, the login screen isn't shown - instead the mouse cursor is shown on a black screen for a second, then the screen goes black. I can still log in with other TTYs.

The problem doesn't seem to be related to GPU drivers - it occurs exactly the same, whether I try to use Kinoite or Universal-Blue kinoite-nvidia.

To Reproduce

Please describe the steps needed to reproduce the bug:
1. Install Fedora Kinoite from Fedora-Kinoite-ostree-x86_64-39-1.5.iso and reboot. Observe that the system works.
2. Either execute sudo rpm-ostree upgrade in a terminal, or run the normal GUI updater
3. Reboot and select the new entry Fedora Linux 39.20240116.0 in Grub. The login screen isn't shown.

Expected behavior

The login screen should be shown as usual instead of a black screen.

OS version

State: idle
BootedDeployment:
● fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/kinoite
                  Version: 39.20240116.0 (2024-01-16T00:50:47Z)
                   Commit: 8c7cf074576054a4ed47a39b45c7f0694c2be078837ef4840d906215aaa3a704
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by E8F23996F23218640CB44CBE75CF5AC418B8E74C

(the dot before fedora:fedora is shown properly in the terminal)

Additional context

I think the problem is related to kwin_wayland - journalctl shows: Jan 16 17:11:05 fedora systemd-coredump[1545]: Process 1391 (kwin_wayland) of user 981 dumped core.
Since I couldn't figure out how to attach the log here, I uploaded it to Pastebin instead: https://pastebin.com/PvcF87te

I attempted to get a backtrace, this is all gdb gives me:

#0  0x00007f3b9c0c6940 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007f3b6dffaa50 in ?? ()
#2  0x00007f3b961d9b3c in lp_fs_linear_run () from /usr/lib64/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)`

I tried getting it as described here, but it doesn't crash - though it replaces the TTY terminal, and still doesn't show anything.

Please let me know if I can provide any further information!

The problem doesn't occur if I force SDDM to use X11 as described here.

Update: The problem also doesn't occur if I disable the integrated graphics card in the UEFI.

This looks like a kwin bug that should be reported upstream. The easiest way to get a full backtrace might be to install a classic KDE Spin for now. Otherwise you should be able to use gdb or coredumpctl to get the coredump and then get the debug symbols.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue tagged with: kinoite, nvidia

Can you confirm that you GPU is an NVIDIA one?

Edit: Apparently from the log it's all AMD.
Edited by siosm

Is this a Framework? There have been issues that are fixed with a firmware update.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue untagged with: nvidia

Sorry, I should have specified the hardware - it's a custom-built desktop with an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU.

I will try to do so if another issue arises. For now I don't want to modify things too much, and since dual boot isn't supported I'm afraid to break the installation. Thank you!

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue tagged with: nvidia

Sorry, I should have specified the hardware - it's a custom-built desktop with an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU.

I will try to do so if another issue arises. For now I don't want to modify things too much, and since dual boot isn't supported I'm afraid to break the installation. Thank you!

@timonlukas Could you confirm if you're still seeing this issue? If not, please let us know if we can close this issue. A lot has changed in regard to NVIDIA in the last couple of months with the release of 555 driver

This is now fairly old and a lot has changed since. Please comment here or create a new issue if you can still reproduce it on latest Kinoite. Thanks

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue close_status updated to: Can't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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