Totem crashes on launch | GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: Failed to flush Wayland connection | Gdk-Message: Error flushing display: Protocol error

[Robin Sheat]

If I launch totem, it crashes pretty much immediately. I resolved this by deleting .config/totem. I had moved some video files that had been previously opened within it recently, so possibly it was trying to reference them (for thumbnails or whatever) and that broke it.

robin@malik:~$ totem

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.832: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

(totem:5573): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 18:00:17.833: Failed to flush Wayland connection

Gdk-Message: 18:00:17.844: Error flushing display: Protocol error
robin@malik:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: totem 42.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-23.23-generic 5.15.27
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Mar 28 18:00:39 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-23 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220313)
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Update: my resolution didn't resolve it. If I attempt to play a file, it crashes with the same message as above.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

> Update: my resolution didn't resolve it. If I attempt to play a file, it crashes with the same message as above.

Please:

1. Tell us which message you now mean; and

2. Follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Maybe related?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2155 which is fixed in 42.rc:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/commit/690b8806d

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

> 1. Tell us which message you now mean; and

robin@malik:~/Videos$ totem Outrageous\ Fortune\ S04E08.m4v
Gdk-Message: 11:02:22.100: Error flushing display: Protocol error
robin@malik:~/Videos$

This result appears pretty much immediately, and no desktop window opens.

> 2. Follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment

No crash dump is produced as this isn't a SIGSEV or similar style crash, more a failing to work so shutting down abort.

> Maybe related?

This looks to me more like a screencast bug rather than a playback bug.

Maybe relevant, I do get slightly different results sometimes. I just tried it again:

robin@malik:~/Videos$ totem Outrageous\ Fortune\ S04E08.m4v

(totem:3576): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 11:09:08.153: Failed to flush Wayland connection

Gdk-Message: 11:09:08.153: Error flushing display: Protocol error

(totem:3576): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 11:09:08.153: Failed to flush Wayland connection

robin@malik:~/Videos$

i.e sometimes the "Failed to flush" message appears, sometimes it doesn't.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I meant that mutter commit 690b8806d sounds like it might fix some Wayland protocol errors seen in apps recently. Maybe, maybe not.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

After a recent update followed by a reboot, totem works again. Some mutter related updates were there, so you might well have been right about that.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Oh wait, I'm being hit with Bug #1968929 where I now don't get wayland at all and so fell back to Xorg.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/41#issuecomment-959550980

and

https://bugs.launchpad.net/egl-wayland/+bug/1968488

look related.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr)]

Just had the same issue with Totem 42.0 in Ubuntu 22.04. Removing of ".config/totem" helped me.

[zubozrout (zubozrout)]

Behaves the same with the same error message for me on Wayland. Removing ".config/totem" doesn't seem to make any difference. But switching back to Xorg does solve it for me.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Bug 1965563 (Protocol error) might be related somehow. Seems both use GTK 3.

[jsc (jens-s-l)]

I have the same issue on an nvidia GeForce GTX 960M Hardware with the same error output:

(totem:21578): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 21:52:48.831: g_param_values_cmp: assertion 'G_IS_VALUE (value1)' failed

Gdk-Message: 22:01:34.548: Error flushing display: Protokollfehler

After removing `~/.config/totem/` and `~/.cache/totem/` totem could be started but crashes if I try to start a video or sound file.
Starting via sudo seams to fix this, videos could be played, but w/o sound.

BTW: gst-play-1.0 <video-file> works w/o problems.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Totem works in 22.10

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes the fix is in egl-wayland 1.1.10 - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/egl-wayland

[Nikolay Khodyunya (nkhodyunya2)]

I just removed libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and totem now works fine on ubuntu jammy 22.04.3

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I suspect you've just disabled hardware acceleration by doing that. It would be a better idea to log into a Xorg session instead.