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[Wayland] Qtile wayland not launch

See original GitHub issue

The issue:

qtile -v 0.21.1.dev75+g6620786f

When I want to start qtile with the command start -b wayland it gives me the following error

failed to load driver: radeonsi
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib64/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio (search paths /usr/lib64/dri, suffix _dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio (search paths /usr/lib64/dri, suffix _dri)
failed to load swrast driver
00:00:00.019 [render/allocator/gbm.c:198] gbm_create_device failed
00:00:00.019 [render/allocator/allocator.c:134] Failed to create allocator
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/qtile", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/libqtile/scripts/main.py", line 66, in main
    options.func(options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/libqtile/scripts/start.py", line 88, in start
    q = make_qtile(options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/libqtile/scripts/start.py", line 51, in make_qtile
    kore = libqtile.backend.get_core(options.backend)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/libqtile/backend/__init__.py", line 15, in get_core
    return importlib.import_module(f"libqtile.backend.{backend}.core").Core(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/libqtile/backend/wayland/core.py", line 119, in __init__
    ) = wlroots_helper.build_compositor(self.display)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/wlroots/helper.py", line 30, in build_compositor
    allocator = Allocator.autocreate(backend, renderer)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/wlroots/allocator.py", line 25, in autocreate
    raise RuntimeError("Unable to create an allocator.")
RuntimeError: Unable to create an allocator.

Looking for bugs in this comment https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/3654#issuecomment-1173020406 told me to try this command

pipx inject --pip-args "--no-binary :all: --no-cache-dir" qtile pywlroots

with which I was able to get qtile working on wayland, but pipx installs version 0.21.0 not the dev version.