Bug 2397145

Summary: Blender menus are grayed out under Fedora Workstation 43
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Atsushi <qd_linux5_kvm>
Component: blenderAssignee: Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 43CC: code, design-devel, epel-packagers-sig, kwizart, luya_tfz, negativo17
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Description Atsushi 2025-09-21 07:06:57 UTC
When running Blender on Fedora Workstation 43(GNOME, Wayland), the Preferences window does not open and all menus starting from the File menu are grayed out.

 I test flatpak(flathub), occur the issue too. So the issue may be not rpm-specific. On Fluxbox(host) and Fedora KDE Edition(gnome-boxes), the menus work correctly.

This suggests the problem is related to the GNOME Wayland session rather than Blender itself.

Version-Release number of selected component:

blender-4.5.3-1.fc43.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-49.0-1.fc43.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.15.3-2.fc43.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-1.20.3-2.fc43.x86_64

Some Environments are in Additional Information

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Blender from Fedora RPM packages or Install blender from flatpak install com.blender.Blender
2.Run Blender 
3.Try to open Preferences or any menu starting from the File menu.
Actual Results:
The Preferences window does not open.
All menus starting from the File menu are grayed out.

Expected Results:
The Preferences window should open normally.
Menus should be accessible as expected.

Additional Information:
Test Environments 

Host: NVIDIA driver
- Fedora Workstation 43
- Fedora Workstation 42
- Fluxbox window manager

gnome-boxes guests (virtio display):
- Fedora Workstation 43
- Fedora Workstation 42
- Fedora KDE Edition 43

Environments where menus are grayed out:

- Host: Fedora Workstation 43
- Flatpak(flathub) on Host

- gnome-boxes guest: Fedora Workstation 43

Environments where menus are not grayed out:

- Host: Fluxbox
- Host and gnome-boxes: Fedora Workstation 42
- gnome-boxes guest: Fedora KDE Edition 43

xdg-desktop-portal warnings (shown in all environments):

/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal[1861]: Realtime error : Could not get pidns for pid XXXX: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory

EGL errors:

- Fedora Workstation 42 and 43 (host, NVIDIA driver): no error.
- gnome-boxes guests (all), and host with nouveau driver (Workstation 43):

libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen EGL Error (0x3009): EGL_BAD_MATCH: Arguments are inconsistent
  
 Despite EGL errors, KDE Edition and Fedora 42 guests do not show the grayed-out behavior.

- Fedora 43 Workstation host: no EGL error, but menus are grayed out.
- Fedora 43 Workstation gnome-boxes guest: EGL error occurs and menus are grayed out.

Comment 1 Luya Tshimbalanga 2025-09-24 22:55:28 UTC
It seems like an issue with Gnome Wayland running on NVidia driver. Can you file the bug upstream on GNOME Shell?

Comment 2 Atsushi 2025-09-25 04:06:04 UTC
Thanks for your message.
This bug has both NVIDIA proprietry driver and nouveau driver. 
In the case, Shoud I file the bug upstream on GNOME Shell?

If so, I will file the bug on GNOME shell.

Comment 3 Luya Tshimbalanga 2025-09-25 05:54:31 UTC
Please do.

Comment 4 Atsushi 2025-09-25 07:39:17 UTC
Issue done. 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8677.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-10-29 23:18:13 UTC
FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755 (blender-4.5.4-1.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-10-30 05:34:40 UTC
FEDORA-2025-455fbd9e26 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-455fbd9e26`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-455fbd9e26

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Atsushi 2025-10-30 05:57:32 UTC
This bug has fixed. Blender version both 4.5.3-1(I downgrade it) and 4.5.4-1 are OK.
If it related to other packages, this bug is fixed.
Thank you for your hard work.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2025-10-30 06:04:28 UTC
FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Atsushi 2025-10-30 07:34:14 UTC
I test that update mutter to 49.1, fix it.

Comment 10 Luya Tshimbalanga 2025-10-30 22:04:36 UTC
Thank you for confirming the fix.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2025-11-07 00:58:04 UTC
FEDORA-2025-455fbd9e26 (blender-4.5.4-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2025-11-07 01:30:33 UTC
FEDORA-2025-a77dd61755 (blender-4.5.4-1.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.