Blank Page upon startup

[ShrekisLyf]

Describe the bug I try to start the browser from konsole/clicking on the icon and sadly i am left with a blank window with the title "Nyxt - New buffer - nyxt:new Precise recipe to reproduce the issue

Information

• OS name+version: Garuda Linux Bird of Prey x86_64
• Graphics card and driver: GTX 1060 6GB
• Desktop environment / Window manager name+version: Plasma 6.0.4 with KWin
• How you installed Nyxt (Guix pack, package manager, build from source): via pacman -S nyxt (tried discover and guix too)
• Information from show-system-information:

info from nyxt --system-information:

Nyxt version: 3.11.1
Renderer: GI-GTK
Operating system kernel: Linux 6.8.9-zen1-1-zen
Lisp implementation: SBCL 2.4.0 (Dynamic space size: 3221225472)
Features: (:NYXT-GI-GTK :NYXT-GTK :NYXT-GI-GTK :NYXT-GTK :NYXT-3.11 :NYXT-3 :NYXT-3.11.1
:CLIPBOARD-CONTENT-METHOD :SWANK :SLYNK :PLUMP-UTF-32 :PARENSCRIPT :NSYMBOLS
:FSET-EXT-STRINGS :SBCL+SAFE-STANDARD-READTABLE :NAMED-READTABLES :GLOBAL-VARS
:CL-FAD :LPARALLEL :21BIT-CHARS :CUSTOM-HASH-TABLE-NATIVE :CL-PPCRE-UNICODE
:CL-UNICODE :CL-JSON-DOUBLE-FLOAT-IS-SUBSUMED
:CL-JSON-SINGLE-FLOAT-IS-SUBSUMED :CHUNGA :FLEXI-STREAMS :CL-PPCRE :WEBKIT2
:WEBKIT-2.42.4 :WEBKIT-2.42 :WEBKIT-2 :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 :CLOSER-MOP :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
:BORDEAUX-THREADS :LPARALLEL.WITH-CLTL2 :LPARALLEL.WITH-CAS
:LPARALLEL.WITH-STEALING-SCHEDULER :SPLIT-SEQUENCE
CFFI-FEATURES:FLAT-NAMESPACE CFFI-FEATURES:X86-64 CFFI-FEATURES:UNIX :CFFI
CFFI-SYS::FLAT-NAMESPACE ALEXANDRIA::SEQUENCE-EMPTYP :FAST-IO-SV :FAST-IO
:CL-JSON-CLOS :CL-JSON :SBCL-USES-SB-ROTATE-BYTE CHIPZ-SYSTEM:GRAY-STREAMS
:THREAD-SUPPORT :ASDF3.3 :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-UNIX
:NON-BASE-CHARS-EXIST-P :ASDF-UNICODE :ARENA-ALLOCATOR :X86-64 :GENCGC :64-BIT
:ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :ELF :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :LINUX :LITTLE-ENDIAN
:PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES :SB-CORE-COMPRESSION :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS
:SB-THREAD :SB-UNICODE :SBCL :UNIX)

ASDF version: 3.3.1
ASDF registries: (NYXT-SOURCE-REGISTRY ENVIRONMENT-SOURCE-REGISTRY)
Critical dependencies: (/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-cffi-gtk/gtk/cl-cffi-gtk.asd
/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-gobject-introspection/cl-gobject-introspection.asd
/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-webkit/webkit2/cl-webkit2.asd)

If you can't run show-system-information, try nyxt --system-information from a shell. It this still does not work, please provide the following:

• Nyxt version (from the nyxt-version command or nyxt --version from a shell):
• Lisp implementation/version (if built from source):
• Kernel name+version:
• WebKitGTK+ | QtWebEngine version:

Output when started from a shell

`Nyxt version 3.11.1 <INFO> [13:44:56] Source location: #P"/usr/share/nyxt/" <INFO> [13:44:56] Listening to socket: #P"/run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket" <INFO> [13:44:57] Loading #P"/home/fish/.local/share/nyxt/history/default.lisp". <INFO> [13:44:57] Restoring 1 buffer from history. AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer

** (process:2): WARNING **: 13:44:57.350: Error writing credentials to socket: Error sending message: Broken pipe AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer <INFO> [13:44:57] Loading #P"/home/fish/.local/share/nyxt/auto-rules.lisp". AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer`

[aadcg]

@ShrekisLyf it's hard to guess what the issue may be given the provided information. Note that we only maintain the distribution on Flathub and Guix. To fix the distribution via pacman, I'd suggest contacting the maintainers. Try installing the latest Nyxt version or bumping WebKitGTK to the latest stable version.

You may also try to start nyxt via nyxt --failsafe to check whether the issue persists.

[aadcg]

@ShrekisLyf Also, it may be because you're using Nvidia hardware.

[yaaama]

Can confirm I have the same problem:

<INFO> [01:06:40] Loading #P"/home/aayush/.local/share/nyxt/auto-rules.lisp".
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer

(WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:06:46.749: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:4:13: Not using units is deprecated.
Assuming 'px'.

(WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:06:46.767: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:22798:24: not a number

(WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:06:46.768: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:23580:24: not a number

(WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:06:46.852: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:22798:24: not a number

(WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:06:46.853: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:23580:24: not a number
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
<INFO> [01:07:44] Deleting socket #P"/run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket".
~ ❯

[julian-hoch]

Same on NixOS (using nvidia, too).

[aadcg]

Could you try setting env var WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE to 1?

Start via WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 nyxt.

[julian-hoch]

Yes, that helped! Now it starts for me.

[aadcg]

Great!

Closing.

[bloominstrong]

FYI, WebKitGTK 2.44.3 seems to have fixed this for me.