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wwmm
Crash on import impulse in convolver
EasyEffects Version
6.2.2
What package are you using?
Other (specify below)
Distribution
Void linux
Describe the bug
When I click Impulses > Import Impulse Easyeffects just closes.
Expected Behavior
Should open modal window to change impulse.
Debug Log
Debug Log
Gdk-Message: 17:43:42.539: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
Additional Information
It worked before some updates.
I could not reproduce the problem on my computer. Which PipeWire version are you using? If it is >= 0.3.44 you will need at least EasyEffects 6.2.2
Gdk-Message: 17:43:42.539: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
Is this the only unusual thing in your logs? I have never seen it here on Arch Linux + Gnome + Wayland. Something may be wrong in your gtk installation.
Works on 6.1.0
6.1.x releases were still using gtkmm. From 6.2.x onward we started to use gtk4 directly.
At this moment I have on Arch Linux
gtk4 4.6.0. What is the version on Void?
Same on Void.
Which desktop environment are you using? This may be some kind gtk4 bug.
Sway
Sway
Another users have reported different issues with gtk4 on Sway. But I think you are the first to report a crash on the import file dialog. In any case it is becoming clear that gtk4 and sway developers have to take a look at what is going on.
Is there a crash in the Import Preset dialog too or does it happen only in the convolver menu?
Is there a crash in the
Import Presetdialog too or does it happen only in the convolver menu?
It crashes on Import Preset too.
@wwmm Is there a way to import the file without using the UI? Having the same problem on Ubuntu 21.10
@OliverGeneser take a look at the folder
ls ~/.config/easyeffects/
autoload input irs output rnnoise
What the dialogs do is copying the files to one of these folders.
The issue still exists for `6.2.4.
As the issue seems to be related to gtk4 and sway incompatibilities updates on our side probably won't make any difference. Something has to be done on gtk4 or sway.
Hi everyone, is there any update on this? This is now happening on my Pop!_OS install. I can't remember if it worked before and then stopped working, because I've apparently in the past been able to import 2 presets under the Convolver module. However, when I tried to import new presets this morning by clicking on Import Impulse, the entire computer froze. The dialog to import the modules showed up but I couldn't do anything, not even CTRL + ALT +DEL or any other key combo could unlock the PC. What's strange is that the music in the background kept playing and the OS apparently never detected that the program was stuck. I had to give the PC a hard shutdown in order for it to stop. Again, I don't know if it worked before but it doesn't work anymore now. I'm on EasyEffect 6.2.6 and Linux kernel 5.17.15 on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS.
Hi everyone, is there any update on this?
No. I still do not see any crashes.
The dialog to import the modules showed up but I couldn't do anything, not even CTRL + ALT +DEL or any other key combo could unlock the PC.
This is a different problem related to gtk4 bugs. You are not seeing a crash. In this case it is gtk4 freezing when some actions are done. Like opening Popover menus or dialogs. Based on user reports it seems to be worse on Xorg. But at least in the case of the menus gtk4 has some problems on Wayland too.
The gtk page on gitlab already has an open issue about its popover menu bugs. But I am not sure the dialog problems have already been reported to them. Ideally thee people having these problems should make reports there too. I doubt we can fix them only on our side.
Good day wwmm, thanks for your quick and detailed response! I understand that this is not something you guys can fix. Therefore I would like to apologize for posting my comment here. Can I therefore suggest to close this/these threads since I was under the impression that this issue was still on the 'to-do' list for the EasyEffects devs. I´d like to think that that also benefits the devs in order to reduce the huge amount of Issue tickets open here on Github so they can focus on the actual tickets that have legitimate issues with EasyEffects in them. Do you agree? Could you link me the Gitlab page where the popover menu bug is mentioned? I can´t seem to find it. I will make sure to mention the aforementioned behavior there and I hope it will be fixed soon.
Good day wwmm, thanks for your quick and detailed response! I understand that this is not something you guys can fix. Therefore I would like to apologize for posting my comment here.
No problems :-)
Can I therefore suggest to close this/these threads since I was under the impression that this issue was still on the 'to-do' list for the EasyEffects devs.
If I understood correctly this issue is a little different from the others because a crash was reported and not the typical gtk4 freeze some users are facing in some situations. So it makes some sense to keep it open. About the others we are keeping just #1182 and #1179 open and closing anything that seems to be a duplicate. As people will keep opening issues here about the gtk freeze while the bugs are not fixed by the GTK developers we won't gain much by closing these two. It is better to keep them open and closing the new ones.
I´d like to think that that also benefits the devs in order to reduce the huge amount of Issue tickets open here on Github so they can focus on the actual tickets that have legitimate issues with EasyEffects in them. Do you agree?
It would be nice. No doubt. But like I said people will keep opening issues about this here anyway.
Could you link me the Gitlab page where the popover menu bug is mentioned? I can´t seem to find it. I will make sure to mention the aforementioned behavior there and I hope it will be fixed soon.
Sure. The one about the popover menus can be found here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3502. You will see that it has been a while since a comment was done there by the GTK developers. And when I mentioned that some people are having similar problems with dialog windows one of the main developers suggested we did not mix issues... As I do not have problems with dialog windows (I use wayland) it would be better if someone else opened an issue about them.
This is one I have opened myself https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4369. It is the only issue I see on Wayland. The others happen only for people on Xorg as far as I know.
@wwmm Thanks for your quick and detailed reply. I just read the rather painful comment by one of the GTK devs on the mentioned URL (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4369). I myself am not a developer and reading a comment like that does not inspire any hope for me to create a new ticket. I fear that they will not take me seriously and I sadly don´t have the technical know-how to describe (on a technical/programming level) what the issue is. I will accept the fact that EasyEffects won't work in some areas and we will have to see when this gets fixed. I can only say: thank you wwmm for replying in all of these issues on your Github and let's hope that the GTK devs recognize this issue soon.
I am not the OP but I resolved this on my system (Arch Linux + sway) by installing xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway in /etc/environment.
Now the program doesn't crash and I am able to select and import a file.
I am not the OP but I resolved this on my system (Arch Linux + sway) by installing xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway in /etc/environment.
Interesting. In our code we call gtk functions that are supposed to show native dialogs for each desktop. But I was not expecting it to crash when the requirements were not installed in the desktop side.
I am not the OP but I resolved this on my system (Arch Linux + sway) by installing xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway in /etc/environment.
Now the program doesn't crash and I am able to select and import a file.
This doesn't solve the issue for me
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61992392/211055984-7c8a79c3-4fce-445d-a7bc-eb71bc776094.mp4
Okay on a new install it doesn't seem that works so I must have had something else installed or configured...
Okay on a new install it doesn't seem that works so I must have had something else installed or configured...
It makes sense. Are you still using Sway? Considering that people on GNOME and KDE are not seeing this problem and that at some point things worked for you gtk4 may be needing some kind of package when running on sway that it does not need on other desktops.
I really can't think of what else I would have installed or what I was doing differently before that it's not working now.
However a somewhat strange workaround is to launch EasyEffects, make the window fullscreen and then I am able to import and load a file... This is without any environmental variables and without xdg-desktop-portal etc installed. It's possible I went through this process beforehand and incorrectly assumed it was the environmental variable or other packages.
Although, it does seems like there is something funky going on because it doesn't seem to load the file properly and I get a message in red "Failed To Load The Impulse File" above the graph. If EasyEffects is closed and opened again the impulse seems to be loaded correctly.
Error messages that were output during testing (EasyEffects loaded from terminal): Gdk-Message: 23:01:28.588: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
(easyeffects:3875): Gdk-WARNING **: 23:02:46.789: Compositor doesn't support moving popups, relying on remapping