Cannot launch application "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye."

[havogt]

Problem Application doesn't launch after a system upgrade on OpenSUSE tumbleweed.

Probably fixed by an electron update. Several apps were affected as well (e.g. vscode, discord). See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/132609 and https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/30893

Screenshots/Demo

>./Athens-1.0.0.AppImage 
10:24:53.444 › Athens starting... version=1.0.0
10:24:53.820 › Checking for update
10:24:53.822 › Checking for update...
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
[6628:1119/102454.434795:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(415)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Athens Version 1.0.0

Linux with NVIDIA gpu driver

[Huskydog9988]

Same issue here. I'm running 515.48.07 Nvidia Drivers on PoP_Os 22.04 LTS. After doing some googling, it suggested the issue is electron. Some potential solutions I found are to upgrade to v13, and use the --disable-gpu option. I first tried running both the 2.0.0 and 2.1.0.beta.3 AppImage with the --disable-gpu option, this did nothing to remedy the issue. Secoundly, I tried to bump the electron version. Using the main branch, I first tried to bump the electron version to 13.6.9 but alas I was still getting the error. Thinking "why not," I bumped electron to the latest release 20.0.3. Huzzah!! the error is gone. However, there is still an issue. The app only displays a black box. The logs show nothing going wrong either.

(set the version to 2.1.0-beta.4 for testing)

16:10:50.263 › Athens starting... version=2.1.0-beta.4
16:10:50.669 › Checking for update
16:10:50.670 › Checking for update...
16:10:52.345 › Update for version 2.1.0-beta.4 is not available (latest version: 2.1.0-beta.3, downgrade is disallowed).
16:10:52.346 › Update not available.

At this point I'm puzzled as to the cause. I'm going to continue to do testing on my own, but I doubt I'll come up with anything.

[metaflow]

I just stumbled into this issue too.

[lidorcg]

Running the appimage with --no-sandbox flag worked for me on ubuntu.