Launching chocolate-doom or prboom-plus crashes Wayland session

[Alex Jones]

When trying to launch Doom (both chocolate-doom and prboom-plus), the Wayland session will crash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: mutter 3.25.91+20170902~ce515c5-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-041300rc7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Sep 3 10:37:38 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170829)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170829)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
Package: mutter 3.25.91+20170902~ce515c5-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8
Tags: artful wayland-session
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

This happens on both the standard Ubuntu kernel and the latest mainline kernel. This report is from the mainline kernel.

[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

On the 4.12 default Ubuntu kernel, the browser crashes as well while trying to report the bug, although it doesn't bring the Wayland session down with it.

[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

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[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

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[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

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[Alex Jones (blenheimears)]

This second report from apport-collect is from a different machine running the 4.12 stock Ubuntu kernel and official Nvidia drivers, with the Nvidia configuration set to enable Wayland. The browser does not crash on that machine, but chocolate-doom still crashes the session.

[Jon Dowland (jond)]

Can you try either prboom or chocolate-doom with the '-nofullscreen' command-line option? My hunch is the problem is related to trying to change the display resolution whilst entering fullscreen mode.

It's likely actually an SDL1 bug. In Chocolate Doom's case, we are moving to SDL2 with the next release (v3) which we consider to be the proper way to address bugs like these, although I don't think prboom has any plans to change.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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