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Xwayland fails to initialize on miral-desktop

Bug #1728574 reported by Alan Griffiths
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Bug Description

$ miral-desktop
$ WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 miral-xrun xeyes

This outputs:

[3478171.835] -> wl_display@1.get_registry(new id wl_registry@2)
[3478171.859] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478171.992] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.018] wl_registry@2.global(1, "wl_compositor", 3)
[3478172.032] -> wl_registry@2.bind(1, "wl_compositor", 1, new id [unknown]@4)
[3478172.056] wl_registry@2.global(2, "wl_seat", 5)
[3478172.061] wl_registry@2.global(3, "wl_output", 2)
[3478172.065] -> wl_registry@2.bind(3, "wl_output", 2, new id [unknown]@5)
[3478172.078] wl_registry@2.global(4, "wl_shell", 1)
[3478172.083] -> wl_registry@2.bind(4, "wl_shell", 1, new id [unknown]@6)
[3478172.087] wl_registry@2.global(5, "wl_shm", 1)
[3478172.092] -> wl_registry@2.bind(5, "wl_shm", 1, new id [unknown]@7)
[3478172.098] wl_registry@2.global(6, "wl_drm", 2)
[3478172.104] -> wl_registry@2.bind(6, "wl_drm", 2, new id [unknown]@8)
[3478172.113] wl_callback@3.done(0)
[3478172.119] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478172.227] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.248] wl_output@5.geometry(0, 0, 310, 170, 0, "Fake manufacturer", "Fake model", 0)
[3478172.271] wl_output@5.mode(3, 1600, 900, 59970)
[3478172.277] wl_output@5.scale(1)
[3478172.280] wl_output@5.done()
[3478172.287] wl_drm@8.device("/dev/dri/card0")
wayland-egl: could not open /dev/dri/card0 (Permission denied)
[3478172.300] wl_drm@8.format(875713089)
[3478172.304] wl_drm@8.format(875713112)
[3478172.308] wl_drm@8.format(909199186)
[3478172.312] wl_drm@8.format(961959257)
[3478172.317] wl_drm@8.format(825316697)
[3478172.321] wl_drm@8.format(842093913)
[3478172.325] wl_drm@8.format(909202777)
[3478172.330] wl_drm@8.format(875713881)
[3478172.335] wl_drm@8.format(842094158)
[3478172.339] wl_drm@8.format(909203022)
[3478172.344] wl_drm@8.format(1448695129)
[3478172.349] wl_drm@8.capabilities(1)
[3478172.353] wl_callback@3.done(0)
[3478172.359] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478172.388] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.399] wl_callback@3.done(0)
[3478172.406] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478172.486] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.498] wl_callback@3.done(0)
[3478172.502] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478172.532] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.541] wl_callback@3.done(0)
[3478172.560] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3478172.610] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3478172.623] wl_callback@3.done(0)

with a lot of repetition of the last three lines. X11 clients fail to connect.

~~~~

For comparison, the output when connecting to miral-app is:

[3926349.817] -> wl_display@1.get_registry(new id wl_registry@2)
[3926349.862] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3926349.970] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3926349.994] wl_registry@2.global(1, "wl_compositor", 3)
[3926350.006] -> wl_registry@2.bind(1, "wl_compositor", 1, new id [unknown]@4)
[3926350.025] wl_registry@2.global(2, "wl_seat", 5)
[3926350.033] wl_registry@2.global(3, "wl_output", 2)
[3926350.053] -> wl_registry@2.bind(3, "wl_output", 2, new id [unknown]@5)
[3926350.073] wl_registry@2.global(4, "wl_shell", 1)
[3926350.078] -> wl_registry@2.bind(4, "wl_shell", 1, new id [unknown]@6)
[3926350.083] wl_registry@2.global(5, "wl_shm", 1)
[3926350.089] -> wl_registry@2.bind(5, "wl_shm", 1, new id [unknown]@7)
[3926350.097] wl_registry@2.global(6, "wl_drm", 2)
[3926350.101] -> wl_registry@2.bind(6, "wl_drm", 2, new id [unknown]@8)
[3926350.106] wl_callback@3.done(1)
[3926350.109] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3926350.184] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3926350.190] wl_output@5.geometry(0, 0, 338, 198, 0, "Fake manufacturer", "Fake model", 0)
[3926350.201] wl_output@5.mode(3, 1280, 750, 60000)
[3926350.208] wl_output@5.scale(1)
[3926350.211] wl_output@5.done()
[3926350.219] wl_drm@8.device("/dev/dri/renderD128")
glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2):
[3926360.938] wl_drm@8.format(875713089)
[3926360.952] wl_drm@8.format(875713112)
[3926360.954] wl_drm@8.format(909199186)
[3926360.957] wl_drm@8.format(961959257)
[3926360.959] wl_drm@8.format(825316697)
[3926360.971] wl_drm@8.format(842093913)
[3926360.973] wl_drm@8.format(909202777)
[3926360.975] wl_drm@8.format(875713881)
[3926360.979] wl_drm@8.format(842094158)
[3926360.981] wl_drm@8.format(909203022)
[3926360.983] wl_drm@8.format(1448695129)
[3926360.985] wl_drm@8.capabilities(1)
[3926360.988] wl_callback@3.done(1)
[3926435.962] -> wl_compositor@4.create_surface(new id wl_surface@3)
[3926435.982] -> wl_shell@6.get_shell_surface(new id wl_shell_surface@9, wl_surface@3)
[3926435.995] -> wl_shell_surface@9.set_toplevel()
[3926435.998] -> wl_compositor@4.create_region(new id wl_region@10)
[3926436.002] -> wl_region@10.add(0, 0, 1280, 750)
[3926436.007] -> wl_surface@3.set_opaque_region(wl_region@10)
[3926436.011] -> wl_region@10.destroy()
[3926457.478] -> wl_shm@7.create_pool(new id wl_shm_pool@11, fd 11, 1024)
[3926457.516] -> wl_shm_pool@11.create_buffer(new id wl_buffer@12, 0, 16, 16, 64, 0)
[3926457.532] -> wl_shm_pool@11.destroy()
[3926458.766] -> wl_display@1.get_registry(new id wl_registry@13)
[3926458.789] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@14)
[3926458.846] wl_shell_surface@9.configure(0, 640, 480)

Tags: wayland
Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)
Changed in mir:
assignee: nobody → Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)
Revision history for this message
Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

Empirically, if the Xwayland session is run as root then it starts successfully. (Although the socket it creates is owned by root, which isn't desirable.)

Changed in mir:
status: In Progress → Triaged
importance: High → Medium
assignee: Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

Syncing task from Mir.

Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

Long and boring root-cause and psuedo-fix on https://github.com/MirServer/mir/pull/18

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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

Alternative fix: https://github.com/MirServer/mir/pull/19

Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)
Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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