sway: Sometimes firefox and thunderbird are terminated on sway reload

% firefox 
Gdk-Message: 15:04:50.996: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
zsh: exit 1     firefox

sway 1.6 from debian experimental

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 18
Comments: 23 (6 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

~/.config/sway: Work around firefox crash using exec_always swaymsg Solution is from [1], the workarounds described in [2] did not work for me. The workaround seems to break the xkb instructions tho... — committed to heyLu/confidence by heyLu 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Firefox 109 should have the fix for this.

emersion on Jan 20, 2023

I would bet this is also #6654.

rpigott on Nov 30, 2021

Likely because of a Wayland protocol error. Please try Sway master, and try reproducing with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 in the env.

emersion on Oct 26, 2021

Summary from firefox ticket: Try to comment out “input * …” lines from config.

I changed:

input * {
   xkb_layout "pl"
}

into

input 1133:16419:Logitech_Wireless_Keyboard_PID:4023 {
    xkb_layout "pl"
}
input 1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard {
    xkb_layout "pl"
}

and that fixed my problem

torgiren on Dec 10, 2021

Any idea what changed on your side? Still an issue for me:

sway version 1.6.1
Mozilla Firefox 95.0.2
Thunderbird 91.4.1

Maybe worth to mention that I have the following in my /etc/environment

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1
MOZ_WEBRENDER=1

Not sure if that matters or even if those variables still needed.

mindrunner on Jan 6, 2022

This is, at least in my case, due to https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6654

WhyNotHugo on Dec 10, 2021

Hi,

this issue sounds familiar. I could reproduce this with Sway master, although I’d say it took a lot more tries to reproduce than with Debian’s 1.6. And this time, only one application was affected. Usually I’m seeing a lot more apps exiting at the same time when reloading.

Please see attached log. I think line 343657 is where it happened.

Wayland-Debug-Log.txt

I can try some more if I find some time on the weekend. As far as I recall, it’s not just firefox and thunderbird that are affected but more GUI apps, but maybe it would be good to name the others as well. 😉

RobertMueller2 on Nov 3, 2021