[BUG] - Linux Appimage and pacman package crash on startup. "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye."

[Cknight70]

Describe the bug When starting r2modmanPlus with both the appimage version and the pacman package, the program will start and show a blank r2modmanPlus window for a few seconds, then close.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install the pacman package, or simply run the appimage provided in releases or on the thunderstore page
2. Run program

Additional context I have a Nvidia graphics card, I'm using the proprietary driver on Xorg, I am Running Arch linux.

I ran the app image in bash and got the following log

$   /ebkr-r2modman-3.1.49/r2modman-3.1.49.AppImage 
xdg-mime: application argument missing
Try 'xdg-mime --help' for more information.
starting server on  /tmp/app.r2mm 
starting TLS server false
starting server as Unix || Windows Socket
[7373:0707/182304.968192:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(445)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

[Cknight70]

Hi, I've seemed to have fixed the issue myself by appending --no-sandbox at the end of the run command for this. so for example I can type r2modman --no-sandbox in bash, or add the argument to the desktop startup file like this screenshot

[Jaskowicz1]

Same issue with the deb installation, just seems like it's every single package that is broken.

[TupalupaGit]

Your solution worked for me, thanks!

[al12gamer]

Are the people here experiencing this using NVIDIA cards? Honestly wondering if this is a recurring theme as it was in #1383

[Jaskowicz1]

@al12gamer yeah I'm on Nvidia getting the issue 😅 the no-sandbox flag does fix this though.

[al12gamer]

My friend experiencing the issue has NVIDIA as well. I haven't experienced this on the Intel test bench nor AMD gaming desktop so I'm wondering if there's something to that.

[swapmasterx]

I'm getting this issue with my deb install. This did fix it

[sageworksstudio]

Same .deb install issue (with Nvidia graphics), @Cknight70 's suggestion to use the --no-sandbox option worked to get it started.

[candroid-man]

How do I add the --no-sandbox flag on Fedora on GNOME? I'd like it to run that flag any time I launch the RPM package

[Cknight70]

@candroid-man

Find your .desktop file in

/usr/share/applications/ or /usr/local/share/applications/ for applications installed system-wide, or ~/.local/share/applications/

Find the "exec" line, and add the --no-sandbox parameter on the same line. So it may look like Exec=r2modman --no-sandbox

[OliverKreitmeyer]

Same issue on Fedora 40 Workstation on both rpm and appimage versions. Works when launched with --no-sandbox. Also on Nvidia GPU with proprietary drivers.