Bug 2337385 - Update of mesa to 24.3.3-2.fc41 caused several KDE apps fail to start
Summary: Update of mesa to 24.3.3-2.fc41 caused several KDE apps fail to start
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mesa
Version: 41
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 2338779 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-01-13 16:37 UTC by Stan Trzmiel
Modified: 2025-01-20 16:27 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2025-01-20 08:06:54 UTC
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Description Stan Trzmiel 2025-01-13 16:37:02 UTC 
KMail/Kontact, Falkon and DigiCam and possibly some other KDE apps started to crash on startup after mesa packages update to 24.3.3-2 release.

In KMail launch log theres a message:
[8922:8954:0113/161346.812512:ERROR:gl_context_egl.cc(396)] eglCreateContext failed with error EGL_BAD_ALLOC
KCrash: Application 'falkon' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update mesa packages to 24.3.3-2.fc41
2. start any of affected apps
Actual Results:  
apps fails to start

Expected Results:  
apps launches with no issues

Downgrading mesa packages to 24.3.2-2.fc41 fixes the problem.

System specs:
Hardware: Dell Vostro 3650
CPU: Intel i7-3632QM
GPU: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)

Software: 
OS Fedora 41:
kernel: kernel-6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64
Qt5: 5.15.15
Qt6: 6.8.1
KF6 : 6.10
KDE apps: 24.12.1

kmail crash dump: https://pastebin.com/f0qKSEWD
Comment 1 Lukas Middendorf 2025-01-16 22:19:37 UTC 
I can confirm this with kmymoney using an AMD RX 6700 XT.

I found an older forum thread with a similar problem which proposed starting with
QMLSCENE_DEVICE=softwarecontext QT_OPENGL=software kmymoney
and it indeed is a functioning workaround.
QMLSCENE_DEVICE=softwarecontext also seems to work on its own with kmymoney, but there might be programs which need both.
Comment 2 José Expósito 2025-01-17 10:53:14 UTC 
Are you using mesa-va-drivers-freeworld? This looks similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2338414

Reported to RPMFusion in https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7147
Comment 3 Lukas Middendorf 2025-01-17 13:06:15 UTC 
This indeed seems to be the caused by mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
Comment 4 Oleg Girko 2025-01-17 21:09:24 UTC 
I can confirm that with mesa-va-drivers-freeworld the following apps were crashing: kmail, falkon, akonadiconsole.
The problem went away when I did "dnf swap mesa-va-drivers-freeworld mesa-va-drivers".
Comment 5 José Expósito 2025-01-20 08:06:54 UTC 
A new release of RPM Fusion fixing the issue is available:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-6fbd8f368a#comment-3906418
Comment 6 Michel Dänzer 2025-01-20 15:42:58 UTC 
*** Bug 2338779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Zane Godden 2025-01-20 16:27:03 UTC 
Confirmed duplicate bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2338779 has been resolved by this fix.
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