Nyxt under stumpwm and nixos not starting

[MarceColl]

I installed the nyxt package in NixOS through the official channel. When opening nyxt a white screen flashes and immediately closes.

Information

• OS name+version: NixOS as a flake with the flake lock given below.
• Graphics card and driver: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] (rev 02) with driver i915
• Desktop environment / Window manager name+version: stumpwm 1.0.1
• How you installed Nyxt (Guix pack, package manager, build from source): nixpkgs
• Information from show-system-information:

Nyxt version: 2.2.3
Renderer version: GTK
Operating system kernel: Linux 5.15.43
Lisp implementation: SBCL 2.2.4.nixos (Dynamic space size: 1073741824)
Features: (:WEBKIT2 :WEBKIT2-2.36 :WEBKIT2-CORS-ALLOWLIST :WEBKIT2-PASTE-PLAINTEXT
 :WEBKIT2-TRACKING :WEBKIT2-MUTE :WEBKIT2-EMOJI :WEBKIT2-MEDIA
 :WEBKIT2-SANDBOXING :GTK-3-22 :GTK-3-20 :GTK-3-18 :GTK-3-16 :GTK-3-14
 :GTK-3-12 :GTK-3-10 :GTK-3-8 :GTK-3-6 :GTK-3-4 :GTK :GDK-3-22 :GDK-3-20
 :GDK-3-18 :GDK-3-16 :GDK-3-14 :GDK-3-12 :GDK-3-10 :GDK-3-8 :GDK-3-6 :GDK-3-4
 :CAIRO-1-10 :CAIRO-1-12 :GDK-PIXBUF :GLIB-2-30 :GLIB-2-32 :GLIB-2-34
 :GLIB-2-36 :GLIB-2-38 :GLIB-2-40 :GLIB-2-42 :GLIB-2-44 :GLIB-2-46 :GLIB-2-48
 :GLIB-2-50 :GLIB-2-52 :GLIB-2-54 :GLIB-2-56 :GLIB-2-58 :GLIB :NYXT-2
 :FSET-EXT-STRINGS :CUSTOM-HASH-TABLE-NATIVE :SWANK :PLUMP-UTF-32 :GLOBAL-VARS
 :DECLARE-TYPES :PARENSCRIPT :NAMED-READTABLES :LPARALLEL :21BIT-CHARS :CHUNGA
 :FLEXI-STREAMS :CLOSER-MOP :CL-PPCRE-UNICODE :CL-UNICODE :CL-PPCRE
 :BORDEAUX-THREADS :LPARALLEL.WITH-CLTL2 :LPARALLEL.WITH-CAS
 :LPARALLEL.WITH-STEALING-SCHEDULER :SPLIT-SEQUENCE CHIPZ-SYSTEM:GRAY-STREAMS
 CFFI-FEATURES:FLAT-NAMESPACE CFFI-FEATURES:X86-64 CFFI-FEATURES:UNIX :CFFI
 CFFI-SYS::FLAT-NAMESPACE ALEXANDRIA::SEQUENCE-EMPTYP :FAST-IO-SV :FAST-IO
 :SBCL-USES-SB-ROTATE-BYTE :ASDF-SYSTEM-CONNECTIONS :CL-JSON-CLOS :CL-JSON
 :THREAD-SUPPORT :ASDF3.3 :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-UNIX
 :NON-BASE-CHARS-EXIST-P :ASDF-UNICODE :X86-64 :GENCGC :64-BIT :ANSI-CL
 :COMMON-LISP :ELF :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :LINUX :LITTLE-ENDIAN
 :PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS :SB-THREAD :SB-UNICODE
 :SBCL :UNIX)

ASDF version: 3.3.4
ASDF registries: (NYXT-SOURCE-REGISTRY ENVIRONMENT-SOURCE-REGISTRY USER-SOURCE-REGISTRY
                      USER-SOURCE-REGISTRY-DIRECTORY
                      DEFAULT-USER-SOURCE-REGISTRY SYSTEM-SOURCE-REGISTRY
                      SYSTEM-SOURCE-REGISTRY-DIRECTORY
                      DEFAULT-SYSTEM-SOURCE-REGISTRY)
Critical dependencies: (/nix/store/ik4rsba42w9i6b5h4hiig3c2gm9m50gj-lisp-cl-cffi-gtk-20201220-git/lib/common-lisp/cl-cffi-gtk/gtk/cl-cffi-gtk.asd
 /nix/store/2hkn585cyfc3g8aw8d9h4advqr2fwxl6-lisp-cl-gobject-introspection-20210124-git/lib/common-lisp/cl-gobject-introspection/cl-gobject-introspection.asd
 /nix/store/6xigw0pdgbb1aaxbig51524byiikzmyh-lisp-cl-webkit2-cl-webkit-20211209-git/lib/common-lisp/cl-webkit2/webkit2/cl-webkit2.asd)

NixOS flake lock

{
  "nodes": {
    "home-manager": {
      "inputs": {
        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
      },
      "locked": {
        "lastModified": 1654422613,
        "narHash": "sha256-ZxkMM13AnrMwYOV99ohzcqeTkAOqD9Q2SBdZ9WoFE9Y=",
        "owner": "nix-community",  
        "repo": "home-manager",
        "rev": "20703892473d01c70fb10248442231fe94f4ceb4",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
        "owner": "nix-community",
        "repo": "home-manager",
        "type": "github"
      }
    },
    "nixpkgs": {
      "locked": {
        "lastModified": 1654398695,
        "narHash": "sha256-Kw/KeoFXszNsF5mORP45mrxCP+k9Aq03hWcuWCL9sdI=",
        "owner": "NixOS",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "rev": "c5d810f4c74c824ae0fb788103003c6c9d366a08",
        "type": "github"  
      },
      "original": {
        "id": "nixpkgs",
        "type": "indirect"
      }
    },
    "nixpkgs_2": {
      "locked": {
        "lastModified": 1654230545,
        "narHash": "sha256-8Vlwf0x8ow6pPOK2a04bT+pxIeRnM1+O0Xv9/CuDzRs=",
        "owner": "nixos",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "rev": "236cc2971ac72acd90f0ae3a797f9f83098b17ec",
        "type": "github"  
      },
      "original": {
        "owner": "nixos",
        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "type": "github"
      }
    },
    "root": {
      "inputs": {
        "home-manager": "home-manager",
        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs_2"
      }
    }
  },   
  "root": "root",
  "version": 7
}

Output when started from a shell

[mcoll@Carmack:~]$ nyxt -v
Arguments parsed: (VERBOSE T URLS NIL) and NIL
 <INFO> [12:04:49] nyxt start.lisp (listen-or-query-socket) -
  Listening to socket "/run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket".
Nyxt version 2.2.3
 <INFO> [12:04:49] nyxt start.lisp (load-lisp unsafe-load) -
  Loading Lisp file "/home/mcoll/.config/nyxt/auto-config.lisp".
<DEBUG> [12:04:49] nyxt start.lisp (load-lisp unsafe-load) -
  Lisp file "/home/mcoll/.config/nyxt/init.lisp" does not exist.
<DEBUG> [12:04:49] nyxt gtk.lisp (ffi-initialize gtk-browser) -
  Initializing GTK Interface
Could not determine the accessibility bus address
<DEBUG> [12:04:49] nyxt base-mode.lisp (base-mode form-fun-19) -
  BASE-MODE enabled.
 <INFO> [12:04:49] nyxt start.lisp (quit form-fun-3) -
  Deleting socket "/run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket".

[Ambrevar]

Hmmm... I suspect one of these:

• Either an issue with the graphics driver.

• Could not determine the accessibility bus address

  Are you running in a container or something? If not, the Nix package may be missing some inputs.

Can someone on Nix report if it works for them on Stumpwm? Cc @jmercouris

[MarceColl]

Not running in a container, no, it's nyxt as installed from nixpkgs running on my laptop. It could be an issue with the graphics driver, but every other application that uses the GPU seems to work fine.

[Ambrevar]

Can you try Epiphany (GNOME Web)?

Also can you try exporting the WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE environment variable to 1 before starting Nyxt?

[MarceColl]

Sure! Epiphany starts and works fine, WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE doesn't seem to change anything. Same logs, same flash of a white screen.

[MarceColl]

This may help: when running nyxt as root using sudo it starts properly.

[Ambrevar]

This is definitely a packaging issue then. I don't know Nix well enough, could you reach out to the Nix community?

One last thing: can you try nyxt --no-socket --no-init --no-auto-init as a regular user?

[MarceColl]

That does start properly as a regular user (changed --no-auto-init to --no-auto-config as I assume that's what you mean)

[Ambrevar]

Yup!

OK, so the problem is with the socket. Can you try then with nyxt --no-socket? When you start Nyxt without flags, does the file /run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket exist?

Do you have write persmission to /run/user/1000/nyxt/?

[MarceColl]

It does start properly with nyxt --no-socket The file does not exist and I do have write permissions for /run/user/1000/nyxt/

[mcoll@Carmack:/run/user/1000/nyxt]$ ls

[mcoll@Carmack:/run/user/1000/nyxt]$ touch whatever.socket

[mcoll@Carmack:/run/user/1000/nyxt]$ ls
whatever.socket

[Ambrevar]

The plot thickens...

Can you start nyxt (with socket) and watch for /run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket, see if it gets created?

Could you also try nyxt --socket $HOME/nyxt.socket?

[td0m]

The plot thickens...

Can you start nyxt (with socket) and watch for /run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket, see if it gets created?

Could you also try nyxt --socket $HOME/nyxt.socket?

Same issue for me (on swaywm and nixos). Socket does not get created, while --no-auto-config and --no-init fix the issue.

Any ideas?

[Ambrevar]

@td0m Above we narrowed the issue down to the socket, so starting with nyxt --no-socket fixed it. However it had nothing to do with --no-auto-config or --no-config. Can you confirm which command line argument fixes the startup for you?

[aadcg]

Stale.