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pattydaone

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Registered: 2025-12-31

Posts: 2

Switch to arc gpu caused all electron applications to fail launching

I just recently upgraded my gpu from an nvidia 20 series to an arc b580. Since doing so, electron applications absolutely will not launch.
I am running sway (and therefore wayland). I believe I followed the arch wiki to a T when installing all the necessary drivers, below is a list of packages I have:

 
mesa
lib32-mesa
vulkan-intel
lib32-vulkan-intel
xorg-wayland
xorg-server
intel-media-driver
linux-firmware-intel
libvpl
vpl-gpu-rt

I also run electron apps with the following flags:

--enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
--enable-features=WebRTPPipeWireCapturer
--enable-wayland-ime

As far as electron versions go, it appears I have electron 37 and 39 installed.

Unfortunately, I haven't much experience troubleshooting such problems, and don't really know where to start. As such, the only things I really did were double and triple check all my drivers were correct, perform a system upgrade, and clear my cache files (both ~/.cache and the individual cache folders in ~/.config/<appname>).
Also, since I was on nvidia before, and using the proprietary drivers, I had to start sway with the unsupported gpu flag; I removed that and the problem persists, so it isn't that.
And finally, when I attempt to start one of these apps from a terminal, I am met with the following errors:

[6036:1231/094445.802359:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094446.088333:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094446.440925:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094446.755512:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094447.065432:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094447.225218:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094447.375757:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094447.521555:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:999] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=135
[6036:1231/094447.521571:FATAL:content/browser/gpu/gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc:415] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.

Any help would be appreciated, please let me know if more information is required.

pattydaone

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Registered: 2025-12-31

Posts: 2

Re: Switch to arc gpu caused all electron applications to fail launching

Nevermind, got it figured out.
Recent Arc gpus appear to absolutely require Rebar (C.A.M. or whatever else it's called) to be enabled in BIOS to function properly. Very last bit of troubleshooting on the intel graphics page.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,547

Re: Switch to arc gpu caused all electron applications to fail launching

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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