Bug#1013171: gnome-control-center does not start on gnome Wayland

[Alban Browaeys]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:13:43 +0200 Giacomo Mulas
<giacomo.mulas at inaf.it> wrote:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:42.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> after some recent upgrade (I cannot pin down which one exactly, I
have an up
> to date sid system), gnome-control-center does not display any window
any
> more when running in a gnome wayland session. It still does work
properly
> in a gnome on Xorg session. It is not the only one showing this
behaviour, 
> the same happens (to me) with at least gnome-software, gnome-
extensions-app, 
> extension-manager. The problem is identical even with all gnome
extensions
> disabled, so it does not depend on this.
 
This was likely not a gnome-control-center issue if it also affect
other gnome-software. Was this fixed by an upgrade since then?


From the strace I see you have an nvidia graphic card. Could you try
wayland with nouveau? The bug is probably in the nvidia code.




> I attach at the end environment and strace for both gnome-control-
center on
> wayland (which shows no window) and on xorg (which works correctly). 
Please
> let me know if there is some test I may run to help track this
problem down.
> 
> Thanks in advance, best regards
> Giacomo Mulas
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (401, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
> ii  accountsservice               22.08.8-1
> ii  apg                           2.2.3.dfsg.1-5+b2
> ii  colord                        1.4.6-1
> ii  desktop-base                  11.0.3
> ii  desktop-file-utils            0.26-1
> ii  gnome-control-center-data     1:42.2-1
> ii  gnome-desktop3-data           42.2-1
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon         42.2-1
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas     42.0-1
> ii  libaccountsservice0           22.08.8-1
> ii  libadwaita-1-0                1.1.2-1
> ii  libc6                         2.33-7
> ii  libcairo2                     1.16.0-5
> ii  libcolord-gtk4-1              0.3.0-3
> ii  libcolord2                    1.4.6-1
> ii  libcups2                      2.4.2-1
> ii  libepoxy0                     1.5.10-1
> ii  libfontconfig1                2.13.1-4.4
> ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.41.0-4
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0           2.42.8+dfsg-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.72.2-2
> ii  libgnome-bg-4-1               42.2-1
> ii  libgnome-bluetooth-ui-3.0-13  42.1-1
> ii  libgnome-desktop-4-1          42.2-1