#1

Steps to reproduce

Text:

1. Install either the Flatpak or Appimage for Obsidian (v 0.13.14)
2. Run flatpak override --user --env=OBSIDIAN_USE_WAYLAND=1 md.obsidian.Obsidian for the flatpak version
3. Run Obsidian

Expected result

Open the Obsidian application.

Actual result

Obsidian “opens”, as in a process is opened with Obsidian, however there is no actual window and activity stops (after a few seconds, no more CPU usage). Same situation happens when executing the Appimage. Running from the terminal:

-- For Flatpak --
[3 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Running: /app/bin/zypak-helper child - /app/obsidian --type=zygote
2022-01-02 22:17:23 Loading main app package /app/resources/obsidian.asar
2022-01-02 22:17:24 Checking for update using Github
2022-01-02 22:17:24 Success.
2022-01-02 22:17:24 Latest version is 0.13.14
2022-01-02 22:17:24 App is up to date.

-- For Appimage --
2022-01-02 22:07:16 Loading main app package /tmp/.mount_ObsidiEsMZvq/resources/obsidian.asar
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
2022-01-02 22:07:16 Checking for update using Github
2022-01-02 22:07:16 Success.
2022-01-02 22:07:16 Latest version is 0.13.14
2022-01-02 22:07:16 App is up to date.

Afterwards, it just hangs.

Environment

  • Operating system: Opensuse Tumbleweed (VERSION_ID=20211215)
  • DE: GNOME 41.2 (Wayland Session)
  • Obsidian Version: 0.13.14
  • Debug info:
running journalctl -e:
Jan 02 17:20:07 localhost.localdomain systemd[1724]: Started app-flatpak-md.obsidian.Obsidian-13225.scope.
Jan 02 17:20:07 localhost.localdomain systemd[1724]: Started app-flatpak-md.obsidian.Obsidian-13251.scope.
Jan 02 17:21:06 localhost.localdomain systemd[1724]: app-flatpak-md.obsidian.Obsidian-13225.scope: Consumed 1.999s CPU time.*

* Hit CTRL-D
#2

Flatpak is community maintained. we don’t provide support for it.

#3

Oh my apologies. However I downloaded the Appimage from the official website and the same result produces (I added the output as well).

#4

I suggest you google where

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

comes from.

#5

I’m experiencing a very similar issue on either AppImage or Flatpak installed versions.

[rickbowman@fedora Applications]$ ./Obsidian-0.13.31.AppImage  --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
2022-03-18 18:16:36 Loading updated app package /home/rickbowman/.config/obsidian/obsidian-0.13.33.asar
[8764:0318/141636.874667:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(454)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl, ANGLE is 
[8764:0318/141636.894228:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[8713:0318/141636.943937:ERROR:cursor_loader.cc(116)] Failed to load a platform cursor of type kNull
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This issue is also being reported here Crash on startup with OBSIDIAN_USE_WAYLAND=1 · Issue #19 · flathub/md.obsidian.Obsidian · GitHub but again happens consistently on both versions to me.

#6

This is an upstream issue between electron and wayland. Don’t force obsidian in wayland native mode until the issue is fixed upstream.

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/32487