[BUG]: GUI crash - fatal error with gtk in Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed)

[dhdeangelis]

Describe the bug
Hale 5.4.0 GUI crashes with following message in two different machines using openSUSE Tumbleweed (20250109):

> /usr/local/hale-studio-5.4.0-linux.gtk.x86_64/HALE
10.02.2025 19:17:45 WARN  o.e.g.b.e.i.s.ExtenderConfiguration.addDefaultDependencyFactories(334) - Gemini Blueprint extensions bundle not present, annotation processing disabled.
ERROR StatusLogger Log4j2 could not find a logging implementation. Please add log4j-core to the classpath. Using SimpleLogger to log to the console...
Feb 10, 2025 7:17:46 PM com.orientechnologies.common.log.OLogManager log
WARNING: Cannot find default script language for javascript
10.02.2025 19:17:46 WARN  c.o.c.l.OLogManager.log(49) - Cannot find default script language for javascript
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fa9ca348879, pid=224919, tid=224920
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-17.0.5+8 (17.0.5+8) (build 17.0.5+8)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-17.0.5+8 (17.0.5+8, mixed mode, sharing, tiered, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libgdk-3.so.0+0x49879]  gdk_window_get_screen+0x19
#
# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be processed with "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h" (or dumping to /home/hernan/GeoNatura/proy/StnReg/harmonisering/20250210/core.224919)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. open Hale 5.4.0
2. Click on icon "Open project" or "Load input schema"
3. GUI crashes
4. if Hale is started from a terminal the above trace can be seen

Expected behavior
GUI works normally

Additional context

• Hale can still be run in command line mode using existing projects. It is the GUI that crashes.
• There are recent reports of problems with gdk_window_* libraries (see below), so there is a chance that this problem is not caused by Hale but some faulty interaction between it and the system's GTK libraries.

(*)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7299
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1236631
-> note that the cited solution to update to gtk-layer-shell >= 0.9.0 seems not to be sufficient, as I have 0.9.0-1 and still see the problem.

[dhdeangelis]

Note: 5.3.0 fails too with the same error. I recall using this version so problem is very probably originated by some upstream package. Still worth knowing that it happens IMO.

[florianesser]

Hi @dhdeangelis, thanks for reaching out and reporting the problem! I can't reproduce this on Ubuntu 24.10, neither using Wayland nor Xorg. So it indeed appears likely that this is caused by a dependency of openSUSE.

[dhdeangelis]

Thank you for your feedback @florianesser . I also tested with Xorg and Wayland in both KDE and Xfce. All four combinations fail with same error. So it is indeed as you write.

May I ask you what version of gtk3 does Ubuntu 24.10 use at the moment? My machines currently use 3.24.48-4.1. Thank you.

[dhdeangelis]

I have dug more on this issue and got a recommendation from the GTK folks that the problem likely has nothing to do with GTK, but that Hale and the OS should avoid using "private data", which I guess means GTK's internal types and functions. Could this be the root of the issue?

See more here: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/test-suite-for-gtk3/27006/2?u=dhdeangelis