The minecraft launcher started segfaulting on start after an unknown version upgrade of the launcher itself. There have been no host platform (Fedora 43, gnome 49.1) updates in-between.
I have a setup with an integrated Intel card (i915, i7-1165G7, Iris Xe), and minecraft-launcher suddenly started segfaulting on start, with the following core dump error on journalctl --user:
nov 25 14:09:37 notreally systemd-coredump[8426]: Process 8413 (minecraft-launc) of user 1000 dumped core.
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Stack trace of thread 8413:
#0 0x00007f1382cee577 XCloseDisplay (libX11.so.6 + 0xd577)
#1 0x00007f1352c7088a n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x87088a)
#2 0x00007f1352c5223a n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x85223a)
#3 0x00007f13525aceeb n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x1aceeb)
#4 0x00007f13525b055b RunLauncher (liblauncher.so + 0x1b055b)
#5 0x000055a97e3a1450 n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x1a1450)
#6 0x000055a97e250f3b n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x50f3b)
#7 0x000055a97e246aed n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x46aed)
#8 0x000055a97e230f96 n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x30f96)
#9 0x00007f1381d1b5b5 __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x35b5)
#10 0x00007f1381d1b668 __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so.6 + 0x3668)
#11 0x000055a97e2329ba _start (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x329ba)
Stack trace of thread 8416:
#0 0x00007f1381e0b34d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0xf334d)
#1 0x00007f138231652b g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x6c52b)
#2 0x00007f13822b41ac g_async_queue_pop_intern_unlocked (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa1ac)
#3 0x00007f138231fb74 g_thread_pool_spawn_thread (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x75b74)
#4 0x00007f138231f6c2 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x756c2)
#5 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#6 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8421:
#0 0x00007f1381d92982 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0x7a982)
#1 0x00007f1381d86c3c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec3c)
#2 0x00007f1381d872ac __futex_abstimed_wait_common (libc.so.6 + 0x6f2ac)
#3 0x00007f1381d89b88 pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libc.so.6 + 0x71b88)
#4 0x00007f1352bf8356 n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x7f8356)
#5 0x00007f1352bff1c3 n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x7ff1c3)
#6 0x00007f1352bffaf4 n/a (liblauncher.so + 0x7ffaf4)
#7 0x00007f138204e3e4 execute_native_thread_routine (libstdc++.so.6 + 0x4e3e4)
#8 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#9 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8417:
#0 0x00007f1381d92982 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0x7a982)
#1 0x00007f1381d86c3c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec3c)
#2 0x00007f1381d86c84 __syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec84)
#3 0x00007f1381e006c6 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0xe86c6)
#4 0x00007f13822f42e0 g_main_context_iterate_unlocked.isra.0 (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x4a2e0)
#5 0x00007f13822f43a3 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x4a3a3)
#6 0x00007f13822f43f1 glib_worker_main (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x4a3f1)
#7 0x00007f138231f6c2 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x756c2)
#8 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#9 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8414:
#0 0x00007f1381d92982 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0x7a982)
#1 0x00007f1381d86c3c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec3c)
#2 0x00007f1381d872ac __futex_abstimed_wait_common (libc.so.6 + 0x6f2ac)
#3 0x00007f1381d89b88 pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libc.so.6 + 0x71b88)
#4 0x000055a97e33de0d n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x13de0d)
#5 0x000055a97e344277 n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x144277)
#6 0x000055a97e344b2c n/a (/home/notreally/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher + 0x144b2c)
#7 0x00007f138204e3e4 execute_native_thread_routine (libstdc++.so.6 + 0x4e3e4)
#8 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#9 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8424:
#0 0x00007f1381d92982 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0x7a982)
#1 0x00007f1381d86c3c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec3c)
#2 0x00007f1381d872ac __futex_abstimed_wait_common (libc.so.6 + 0x6f2ac)
#3 0x00007f1381d8997e pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libc.so.6 + 0x7197e)
#4 0x00007f13361cdb2d cnd_wait (libvulkan_intel.so + 0x3cdb2d)
#5 0x00007f13361b361c util_queue_thread_func (libvulkan_intel.so + 0x3b361c)
#6 0x00007f13361cda8c impl_thrd_routine (libvulkan_intel.so + 0x3cda8c)
#7 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#8 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8419:
#0 0x00007f1381d92982 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0x7a982)
#1 0x00007f1381d86c3c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec3c)
#2 0x00007f1381d86c84 __syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x6ec84)
#3 0x00007f1381e006c6 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0xe86c6)
#4 0x00007f13822f42e0 g_main_context_iterate_unlocked.isra.0 (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x4a2e0)
#5 0x00007f13822f449f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x4a49f)
#6 0x00007f1381bb5f12 gdbus_shared_thread_func.lto_priv.0 (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xe8f12)
#7 0x00007f138231f6c2 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x756c2)
#8 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#9 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
Stack trace of thread 8418:
#0 0x00007f1381e0b34d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0xf334d)
#1 0x00007f138231720b g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x6d20b)
#2 0x00007f13822b416d g_async_queue_pop_intern_unlocked (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa16d)
#3 0x00007f13822b42dd g_async_queue_timeout_pop (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa2dd)
#4 0x00007f13823207bf g_thread_pool_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x767bf)
#5 0x00007f138231f6c2 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x756c2)
#6 0x00007f1381d8a464 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x72464)
#7 0x00007f1381e0d5ac __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0xf55ac)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64In this host, I sometimes also hook up an external GPU card (NVIDIA GTX 1070), and when that is active, it is selected as the primary GPU by using udev rules. When I do so, minecraft-launcher (and Minecraft itself) run without issues.
As a reminder, Fedora 43 is now Wayland only, so I am quite suspicious of the stack trace above ending in a X11 call.
Comments 4
The workaround mentioned on this other bug MCL-26138 seem to apply here as well.
I also want to mention that I tried to run the launcher without any nvidia driver or library installed, and the result it is the same. So I believe that this is an issue with Intel cards specifically.
This seems to be caused by the latest update on Linux. The issue MCL-26138 was reported by me, and I can confirm I use Intel. This does not seem to be happening with Windows or Mac, more so Linux, and not desktop environment dependent. Might be distro dependent as only Fedora 43 has been tested.
I am available to sharing additional logs or performing tests.