sleek: Sleek fails to open with error `GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!`

Is it an actual bug? Yes. No features are usable.

Did you check if the bug has already been reported? Yes, I tried

Describe the bug After launching sleek, I get errors in terminal:

~ % sleek
Persisted data located at: /home/valtteri/.config/sleek/user-preferences.json
Success: Translations loaded for: en
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[55269:0405/103236.539623:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
Success: Window events setup
Success: Renderer window created
[55269:0405/103243.616359:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[55269:0405/103246.423549:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[55269:0405/103315.231870:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!

and just a white screen where sleek should be (see screenshots section)

To Reproduce I’m not sure how. The problem appeared suddenly, yesterday if I remember correctly. It doesn’t seem to be related to a sleek upgrade, but is most likely related to some other package upgrade.

Do you see any error entries in sleeks developer tools? The given shortcut doesn’t open developer tools.

Expected behavior The application should launch as normal.

Screenshots 2022-04-05T10:37:59,891624688+03:00

Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: Arch Linux, fully updated, kernel version 5.17.1-arch1-1.
Version of sleek: 1.1.7-1
Source: Arch User Repository

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)

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Same issue, Manjaro, haven’t been able to use sleek for a while. Not sure how much it matters, but when run from terminal, my log terminates sooner than the original poster’s:

Persisted data located at: /home/<user>/.config/sleek/user-preferences.json
Success: Translations loaded for: en
Success: Window events setup
Success: Renderer window created
[1716544:0503/103011.607773:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

gentlecolts on May 3, 2022

I’m having the same issue as well on my system with Arch Linux, with Electron 18.0.3-2

YMan84 on Apr 24, 2022

@ransome1 Uninstalled and reinstalled, didn’t help.

@wedeluxe Thank you! You got it! I downgraded to electron 17.2.0-1 and rebooted, and sleek worked as it should. Then upgraded back to 18.0.1-1 and get a blank screen again.

FYI there’s a package called electron17 on my system, maybe using that would be a low-effort fix?

jokuNimi on Apr 7, 2022

OS: Arch Linux

I ran into the very same issue a couple of days ago. Until then, sleek 1.1.7 worked like a charm. After upgrading a couple of other packages, sleek 1.1.7 failed with a white/blank screen.

Package manager shows that sleek depends on the electron and nodejs system packages. Amongst the package upgrades mentioned above:

electron 17.2.0-1 -> 18.0.1-1

This might be the culprit.

wedeluxe on Apr 6, 2022

I checked: AppImages 1.1.8-rc.4, 1.1.7 and 1.1.6 work correctly, meaning they don’t produce the same behavior.

I now also tried reinstalling sleek from AUR; that didn’t help.

jokuNimi on Apr 5, 2022