FS#70851 : [gnome-shell] 1:40.1 XWayland applications fail to start

FS#70851 - [gnome-shell] 1:40.1 XWayland applications fail to start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rose Kunkel (rosekunkel) - Friday, 14 May 2021, 05:50 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 22:08 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Extra
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture	All
Severity	High
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	2 (IrvineHimself) (IrvineHimself) (2021-05-14) Water Wastage. (WaterWastage) (2021-05-14)
Private	No

Details

Description:
When attempting to run an X application in GNOME on Wayland, the application fails to start and hangs indefinitely.

This affects Firefox, Chrome, Emacs etc. Firefox launches and functions normally when run with GDK_BACKEND=wayland. Downgrading to a snapshot from May 10 fixes the issue.

Additional info:

Running an XWayland app under strace shows it hangs trying to connect to /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.

journalctl shows this message:
gnome-shell[1293]: Failed to init X11 display: Unknown error

Steps to reproduce:
Launch gnome-shell from a tty with `dbus-run-session gnome-session`. (Probably other ways of starting GNOME work too.)
Attempt to open any X-only program (e.g. Emacs).

This task depends upon

Closed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 22:08 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: gnome-shell 40.1-2

Comment by Rose Kunkel (rosekunkel) - Friday, 14 May 2021, 06:31 GMT

I've now upgraded my whole system except for gnome-shell, which I kept at version 1:40.0-1, and the issue did not reappear, so I can confirm that this is an issue with gnome-shell 1:40.1-1 specifically.

Comment by Water Wastage. (WaterWastage) - Friday, 14 May 2021, 09:15 GMT

I can confirm the same. Also, gnome-shell --wayland to reproduce on archiso

Comment by Ilmar (ilmar) - Friday, 14 May 2021, 17:52 GMT

reverting https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/019229c40efb67e3d26f14afa71bf926efeff3fb fix this

Comment by Rose Kunkel (rosekunkel) - Saturday, 15 May 2021, 06:35 GMT

I've submitted an issue upstream:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4284

Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 15:58 GMT

Please try 40.1-2

Comment by Rose Kunkel (rosekunkel) - Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 22:01 GMT

40.1-2 fixed the problem for me. Thanks!