Does not start on some hardware, and has unreadable error messages

[thx1111]

Arch
linux-4.13.10-1
mesa 17.2.4-1
liri-shell-git 20171014.8ca7e54f-1

I have laptop with an NVIDIA chipset, GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M, that seems to run liri-shell without problem. But then, I have other machines on which liri-shell will not run. liri-shell seems to start, showing the spinning circle for a moment, and then quits, with an error message that over-writes the last line on the terminal display.

On another laptop machine with an Intel GPU using the i915 driver module, running "liri-session" from the virtual terminal, "liri-shell" returns with two different error messages. The circumstances that vary the error message are not clear.

The error message appears to over-writes the last informational line, which itself is truncated. Sometimes, the message is: 'Aborted (core dumped) cannot be mixed with others. Hzd_pixels_minmax GL_MESA_window_pos GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_ARB_sync GL_ARB_clear_texture GL_A'

At other times, the truncated message is:
'Abortedfailure in QList::take: "index out of range", file /usr/include/qt/QtCore/qlist.h, line 557rt.desktop"boprint-monitor.desktop"ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL'
followed by the prompt, and then:

could not connect to wayland server
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Couldn't add screen
(EE)

On a desktop machine with a radeon card and a triple head display, the error messages are like:

[376033.507252] [drm:atombios_crtc_mode_fixup [radeon]] ERROR unable to allocate a PPLL
[376033.507265] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config [drm_kms_helper]] ERROR failed to set mode on [CRTC:39:crtc-1]

where the driver fails to properly configure the graphics device for three simultaneous outputs.

Any thoughts about troubleshooting? Is there a way to get readable debugging output? Are these QtWayland or eglfs problems, as opposed to being liri-shell problems, per se?

[plfiorini]

Can you list the hardware components on these machines such as CPU, GPU (integraded or descrete?), RAM, distro, kernel version, mesa version, and the output of qtdiag

[SilverSynch]

Recreated this repeatedly on Arch linux 4.13.11-1, 8GB RAM, Core i3-6000, AMD RX470, Mesa 17.4.0-devel (git-1a61a8b9a7). This is using the precompiled liri-shell-git pacman package from the Liri repo.

qtdiag on X11 returns this:
qtdiag.log

gnome-logs found a few more interesting errors related to Liri (this is from mutliple attempts):

22:26:56 polkitd: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c2 (system bus name :1.40, object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
22:26:56 polkitd: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c2 (system bus name :1.40, object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
22:26:56 polkitd: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c2 (system bus name :1.40 [/bin/liri-shell], object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
22:26:56 dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.39" (uid=1000 pid=5163 comm="/bin/liri-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="Activate" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=424 comm="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind ")
22:24:08 polkitd: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.20, object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
22:24:07 dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.19" (uid=1000 pid=2955 comm="/bin/liri-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="Activate" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=424 comm="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind ")
22:23:00 polkitd: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.18, object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
22:23:00 polkitd: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.18, object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
22:23:00 polkitd: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.18 [/bin/liri-shell 2], object path /io/liri/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
22:22:52 dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.16" (uid=1000 pid=2069 comm="/bin/liri-shell 2 ") interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="Activate" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=424 comm="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind ")

Liri run through the X11 windowed session also fails but for completely different reasons:

liri-session -platform xcb
== Liri Shell v0.9.0 ==
** http://liri.io
** Bug reports to: https://github.com/lirios/shell/issues
** Build: 0.9.0-8ca7e54f51b91a3e87144bfc08f756cf4828132d
OS: Arch Linux [linux version 4.13.11-1-ARCH]
Architecture: x86_64; features: SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2
liri.loginmanager: Using "logind" login manager backend
liri.wlserver.gtkshell.trace: Liri::WaylandServer::GtkShellPrivate::GtkShellPrivate()
liri.wlserver.gtkshell.trace: Liri::WaylandServer::GtkShell::GtkShell()
inotify_add_watch("/usr/local/share/applications") failed: "No such file or directory"
liri.launcher.applicationmanager: Menu file name: "/etc/xdg/menus/liri-applications.menu"
New PolkitAgentListener  0x5564253a1f40
Adding new listener  PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x5564255095d0) for  0x5564253a1f40
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
liri.wlserver.gtkshell.trace: virtual void Liri::WaylandServer::GtkShell::initialize()
qt.scenegraph.general: QSG: basic render loop
qt.scenegraph.general: Using sg animation driver
QtCompositor: Failed to initialize EGL display. Could not get EglDisplay for window.
qml: Compositor created
liri.xwayland: Running: Xwayland -displayfd 33 -rootless -wm 36

** (process:32458): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
"Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject"
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
liri.session.manager: Autostart: "" from "/home/silver/.config/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop"
ASSERT failure in QList<T>::take: "index out of range", file /usr/include/qt/QtCore/qlist.h, line 557
could not connect to wayland server
(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) Couldn't add screen
(EE) 
Aborted

Since Liri doesn't seem to manually dump logs anywhere, I'll have to get an output from a normal session later.

[last-partizan]

Hello. I have similar problem, does not starts on arch.

I'm using i7-3770S CPU and Nvidia GTX 1080 with nouveau driver.

Trying to start liri from tty liri-session > ls.log 2>&1
ls.log