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[Electron] fails to launch with "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye." error message

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Describe the bug

GitHub fails to launch with FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(445)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. on Ubuntu 21.10 beta

Version & OS

version GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.3-linux1

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Impish Indri (development branch) Release: 21.10 Codename: impish

Linux 5.13.0-16-generic

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Fails to launch from dash - launching from CLI gives this error ^

LMK if you need more information

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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maxdrakicommented, Sep 28, 2021

I think - could be wrong - that it’s related to this - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1944468 github-desktop --no-sandbox works fine (phew)

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shiftkeycommented, Feb 5, 2022

After https://github.com/desktop/desktop/pull/13689 was landed upstream in readiness for Electron 14 with the next release I took the opportunity to test the Linux build with the latest round of distros:

Fedora 35

Ubuntu 21.10

There’s a significant batch of changes coming up, but hopefully once the official release is out I’ll cut a release for this repository so that others can start testing with their own setup:

https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/blob/df1e34178cef87f657f377608e76ad768d79cd00/changelog.json#L3-L18