I have evolution/flatpak setup in a fedora-34 based VM. Was running smoothly until I switched my laptop to using the Nvidia card/Nouveau rather than the integrated Intel one.
Now evolution will start, but fail to display any messages showing
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in the GUI:
Something has gone wrong when displaying the message. A WebkitWebProcess crashed when displaying the message. You can try again by moving to another message and back. If the issue persists, please file a bug report in GNOME Gitlab.
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on the CLI (from which evolution was started with
flatpak run
):(WebKitWebProcess:188): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 23:13:29:416: gdk_atom_intern: assertion 'atom_name != NULL' failed libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
What is going wrong here? I tried installing the Nouveau xorg drivers in the VM which didn’t fix this, nor did adding org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default
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WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnome.Evolution
makes the problem disappear, as does switching the underlying distribution from fedora-34
to debian-11
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How to fix this in fedora
- I’d love to return to it …