`bitwig-studio` won't launch after vulkan update

[yioannides]

I've been using your script for a year now and it's been working great, but something about (I'm assuming) a recent Fedora update and I can't seem to be able to launch bitwig-studio. This is the output when running via CLI:

yiannis@workstation:~$ bitwig-studio
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.532 info] About to start the following process:  /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/show-splash-gtk /opt/bitwig-studio/resources/splash-bitwig-studio.png
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.532 info] Child process launched with PID 8058
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.532 info] Backing up log file "/home/yiannis/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log" to "/home/yiannis/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio-previous-run.log"
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.533 info] About to start the following process:  /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/BitwigStudio -cp /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/bitwig.jar:/opt/bitwig-studio/lib/cp:/opt/bitwig-studio/bin/libs.jar -Dorg.sqlite.lib.path=/opt/bitwig-studio/lib/bitwig-studio -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational -Xms300m -Xmx3g -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/bitwig-yiannis -DinstallationRoot=/opt/bitwig-studio -DsplashPid=8058 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:ErrorFile=/home/yiannis/.BitwigStudio/bitwig-studio-jvm-crash.log com.bitwig.flt.app.BitwigStudioMain
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.533 info] Redirecting stdout to /home/yiannis/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.533 info] Redirecting stderr to /home/yiannis/.BitwigStudio/log/BitwigStudio.log
[2025-5-23 16:47:43.533 info] Child process launched with PID 8059
[2025-5-23 16:47:51.209 error] Child process with PID 8058 exited with error code: 3

I am not quite sure how to proceed, so any advice would be more than welcome! Here is my system info:

OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) / Wayland Kernel: 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64 DE: GNOME Shell 48.1 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor GPU1: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] (rev c7) GPU2: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raphael (rev c3)

EDIT1: I also attached the crash log after a fresh install of Bitwig Studio 5.3.8: bitwig-studio-jvm-crash.log

EDIT2: This crash also now occurs with 5.3.5, as well as kernel version 6.14.5 whereas it worked fine just a few days ago.

[teervo]

Same here after updating to the latest packages. Looks like some issue with the graphics libs, that can be resolved for now by downgrading them: sudo dnf downgrade vulkan-\*

[yioannides]

I see... when in doubt, definitely a vulkan bug haha. Thank you so much!

[doofytails]

Hi, currently on Arch, has this issue been resolved?

[EdvanChess]

you can solve this issue by entering following command in the terminal:

echo skia-gl > $HOME/.BitwigStudio/graphics-backend

works on Manjaro as well

[Cankyre]

you can solve this issue by entering following command in the terminal:

echo skia-gl > $HOME/.BitwigStudio/graphics-backend

works on Manjaro as well

Also tested on Fedora 42 today, maybe this should be the default?