Skybrush Live Going blank after starting

[bytesByHarsh]

Just after starting the application, it loads for a few seconds but then the screen turns white.

Version: 2.8.1
System: Ubuntu 20

[isti115]

Hi, @bytesByHarsh!
I'm fairly certain that this is caused by an Electron / GPU driver version conflict, which results in the crash of the renderer process. Could you please complete the following steps in order to help diagnose and resolve issue?

• Check if your drivers are all up to date
• Share the make / model of your GPU
• Run the application with / without hardware acceleration enabled
• Run the application from a terminal window and share the output

[bytesByHarsh]

Hi @isti115
I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 in my system, and all the drivers are up to date.

After running in the terminal I am only getting the following line:

MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

I am not sure how to test with / without hardware acceleration enabled, if there is any specific command to do so I'll try it out.

[isti115]

Hmm, just to make sure that I'm on the right track, could you please run the application with the developer tools enabled (pass the -d command line flag), and check if:

• The "Devtools was disconnected from the page. Once page is reloaded, Devtools will automatically reconnect." message appears after the main window goes blank?
• Pressing CTRL+R (refresh) while the devtools window has focus temporarily resurrects the user interface?

Also, some further (maybe unrelated, but good to know) questions:

• Does your system have a CPU with an integrated GPU?
• Is your desktop environment running on Xorg or Wayland? (Hopefully a simple echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE should give you an answer, if not, here are some more ways to check.)
  • If the desktop environment is using Wayland, please check if Live is running under XWayland!

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Update: I have created an experimental build that has Electron 28 included, which should enable the usage of the ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland environmental variable. (It would've required setting --ozone-platform=wayland previously, which didn't get passed through to Electron when launching the AppImage.) You can download it from the release assets here.

As far as I can see from the screen recording, you seem to be running the default Ubuntu desktop environment, Gnome. If you can get it to run under Wayland¹, please try the experimental build it in the terminal with this environmental variable set: ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland Skybrush-Live-v2.8.1-8-g66c704fb.AppImage

Footnotes

1. It is sometimes possible to select the session type from the display manager / login screen / greeter, such as GDM.
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[bytesByHarsh]

Hey, thanks for the build,

Yes now it seems to be working fine, this binary is working even without specifying ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland

And yes I am running the default Ubuntu desktop environment, with Intel Core i7 and Nvidia GeForce RTX graphic card.

[ntamas]

Okay, so basically it seems like we need to upgrade Electron and then we should be okay. I've been planning a new Live release for quite a while now so that's one more reason to do it.