1822374 - black screen on 1st start

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1824077

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P2)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

Steps to reproduce:

On Ubuntu 23.04 - Start firefox

Actual results:

black screen. quit and restart FF starts fine

Expected results:

FF should start
see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/2011606

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Bob Hood [:bhood]]

Can we please get the output of your about:support page attached to this report?

Also, is there any chance you could test a more recent version of Firefox (e.g., Fx111 or Nightly) on your system and see if the behavior repeats?

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: ok

Comment 4

[Bob Hood [:bhood]]

Martin, anything stand out to you here?

Comment 5

[Darkspirit]

Ubuntu 23.04

Window Protocol: xwayland

Description: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RKL GT1)
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x4c8b
Driver Vendor: mesa/iris
Driver Version: 21.2.6.0

Workaround: The problem should not occur if you enable Firefox' native Wayland backend, either by starting Firefox with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 environment variable or by using https://nightly.mozilla.org (which has it enabled by default).

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Workaround is not a solution. I partially solved the problem reinstalling firefox, but now firefox start with 'snap run firefox' from terminal but does not start using the .desktop file.

Comment 7

[Darkspirit]

Try this command: $ MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 snap run firefox
(With $ echo -e "\nexport MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1" >> .profile one can permanently set the env var, it takes effect with re-login.)

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Firefox does not start at all using his .desktop file, starts with a black screen the 1st time is started from terminal with 'firefox' or 'snap run firefox' and start fine the 2nd time is started from terminal with 'firefox' or 'snap run firefox'

Comment 9

[Darkspirit]

Can this problem be prevented by starting Firefox with the following command?
$ MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 snap run firefox

Comment 10

[:gerard-majax]

All informations points to this being a dupe of bug 1824077, including the upstream issue.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

still black screen on 1st start in Ubuntu 23.04 firefox snap 112.0.2

Comment 12

[Darkspirit]

It's a bit confusing that you have filed the same bug 3 times (bug 1822374, bug 1824077, bug 1825991):
In bug 1825991 comment 10 you have confirmed, that MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 fixes the problem which means this is bug 1788205 which should be fixed by https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2970.