Fails to start on Wayland

[mashmerlow]

Inkscape doesn't start when using Wayland. I'm using Debian 12.5 with GNOME 43.9 on an AMD Ryzen 5700G.
It runs perfectly when the "wayland" socket is disabled using Flatseal, albeit using XWayland

This is the error that it displays.
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 0# Inkscape::Application::crash_handler(int) in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 1# 0x00007F2C46651E80 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 2# Gdk::Device::get_source() const in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/../libgdkmm-3.0.so.1
 3# 0x00007F2C48850B5D in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 4# Inkscape::DeviceManagerImpl::DeviceManagerImpl() in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 5# Inkscape::DeviceManager::getManager() in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 6# Inkscape::Application::Application(bool) in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 7# Inkscape::Application::create(bool) in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 8# InkscapeApplication::on_startup() in /app/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so.1.3.2.0
 9# Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) in /app/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
10# g_closure_invoke in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
11# 0x00007F2C45DD1CD9 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
12# 0x00007F2C45DD33F1 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
13# g_signal_emit_valist in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
14# g_signal_emit in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
15# g_application_register in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
16# 0x00007F2C45F0076E in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
17# g_application_run in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
18# main in inkscape
19# 0x00007F2C4663B08A in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
20# __libc_start_main in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
21# _start in inkscape

System info

Inkscape 1.3.2 (091e20ef0f, 2023-11-25)

GLib version:     2.78.3
GTK version:      3.24.39
glibmm version:   2.66.1
gtkmm version:    3.24.5
libxml2 version:  2.11.5
libxslt version:  1.1.39
Cairo version:    1.18.0
Pango version:    1.51.0
HarfBuzz version: 8.1.1

OS version:       GNOME 45 (Flatpak runtime)

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[hfiguiere]

I use it all the time on Wayland. No problem. Do you have some uncommin input device connected?

[hfiguiere]

Also what GPU?

[mashmerlow]

I use the integrated graphics in the AMD Ryzen 5700G, which I believe uses the "amdgpu" driver.
As for input, I do have a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet.

Edit: Disconnecting it and reconnecting somehow makes Inkscape work again. After plugging it in again, the issue returns.

[hfiguiere]

What if you run Inkscape flatpak from the command line with --device=all, whil you have the wacom tablet plugged in.

Something like

flatpak run --device=all org.inkscape.Inkscape

If that does the trick we have an easy solution, and I can figure out a more robust fix.

[mashmerlow]

It still brings up the error message, unfortunately 😔

[hfiguiere]

I can reproduce here (located the Wacom).

[ripper81]

I can also reproduce this on my Kubuntuinstall. Running KDE Plasma 5.27.10 with the Waylandsession. Inkscape is crashing on startup as long as the wacom tablet is connected.

[ethereal-engineer]

Can also verify - same issue. Unplug the Intuos Tablet and - wow - it works. It will also work if forcing to run on xwayland using GDK_BACKEND=x11.
arch, hyprland

[manuq]

Verified here as well. Thanks to this ticket now I know that unplugging my Wacom makes Inkscape start again.

[weiss-d]

same thing with Wacom Intuous / Manjaro - Wayland - Plasma 6