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rust-alacritty package

Alacritty panics on startup when used on Wayland

Bug #2061269 reported by bLaind
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
rust-alacritty (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Impact
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After upgrading to ubuntu 24.04 beta, alacritty fails with the following message on startup:

thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value', /usr/share/cargo/registry/glutin-0.30.9/src/api/egl/surface.rs:246:44
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Test Case
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Install alacritty on Ubuntu Desktop
Run alacritty
Run
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
to verify you are using a Wayland session. The bug reported here does not affect Xorg sessions.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: alacritty 0.12.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-22.22-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 14 09:46:38 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-08-06 (252 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: rust-alacritty
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-13 (0 days ago)

See original description
Revision history for this message
bLaind (blaind) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
bLaind (blaind) wrote :

The bug seems to manifest only on wayland, with xorg it works.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in rust-alacritty (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in rust-alacritty (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in rust-alacritty (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
flip101 (flip101) wrote :

I also have this problem after updating to 24.04. Would it be possible to update to alacritty to version 0.13.2 as part of a fix?

Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
tags: added: verification-needed
tags: added: verification-needed-noble
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I successfully completed the test case with alacritty 0.13.2-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-noble
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-noble
summary: - Alacritty panics on startup
+ Alacritty panics on startup when used on Wayland
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