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Hello Arch Linux community, thank you for your consideration and time! I tried to fix this myself, but I'm low on troubleshooting time.
The closest similar issues that were found: (GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "Crash when initializing PipeWire screen sharing since 31.0.0 (GNOME Wayland) #11617", GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "libobs/util: Crash on bmalloc(0) #11181"), which seems to confirm my suspicions that the crash's characteristics indicate this is intentionally done by the OBS Project's devs. After troubleshooting this since doing a pacman upgrade on 2024-12-09, it appears that others are getting the same crash as well. According to GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "Memory allocator cleanups #6721", OBS dev "notr1ch" said it shouldn't be a bug in OBS directly, but in a 3rd party plugin. However, I do not have any external 3rd party OBS plugins, just the dependencies and optional dependencies for the package (See foonotes * and **).
Should I make an Arch Linux GitLab bug report for "obs-studio 31.0.0-1" having intentional bugs by the upstream OBS devs?
When trying to use OBS for screen capture with Wayland, the 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' mode will cause the app to crash under Wayland or XWayland when a screen/app capture source is selected. Under an X.Org KDE desktop session, the "Open Selector" button for "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" will not open a "Screen Sharing" KDE dialog menu window, making selecting a capture source non-functional (as well as any previously configured capture sources for PipeWire screen capture also being non-functional).
This was noticed after upgrading "obs-studio (30.2.1-2 -> 31.0.0-1)".
Arch Linux (Installed according to Arch Wiki),
Linux kernel (linux 6.12.4.arch1-1),
Desktop Manager (gdm 47.0-2) and Wayland (wayland 1.23.1-1), with KDE Plasma 6 (plasma-desktop 6.2.4-1, plasma-meta 6.1-1) or GNOME 47 (gnome-desktop 1:44.1-1, gnome-session 47.0.1-1, gnome-shell 1:47.2-1)
Pipewire (libpipewire 1:1.2.7-1, pipewire 1:1.2.7-1) with WirePlummer (libwireplumber 0.5.7-1, wireplumber 0.5.7-1)
OBS Studio (obs-studio 31.0.0-1, ffmpeg 2:7.1-3, alsa-lib 1.2.13-1, glibc 2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2, gcc-libs 14.2.1+r134+gab884fffe3fc-1, systemd-libs 257-1, pam 1.7.0-1, pipewire-audio 1:1.2.7-1, mesa 1:24.3.1-3)
Start a Wayland desktop session,
Open OBS (through .desktop file, terminal, or with GDB)
Click the "+" ("Add Source") button in the "Sources" section, and select "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" option,
In the "Properties for 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)'" OBS pop-up window, click the "Open Selector" button. (This step will fail under an X.Org desktop session.)
In the "Screen Sharing" GNOME/KDE pop-up dialog menu window, select any of the options under either the "screens" tab or the "windows" tab (for attached/virtual monitors or open application windows respectively),
Immediate crash (SIGTRAP under GNU Debugger)
Get a SystemD coredump file added to /var/lib/systemd/coredump
...
Profit?
Starting OBS with "--verbose" (GDM, KDE, Wayland), and without selecting a capture source that will crash OBS, outputs: http://0x0.st/XFqo.txt (X.Org X11: http://0x0.st/XFBw.txt, doesn't crash, but instead will error "warning: [pipewire] Failed to create session, denied or cancelled by user")
$ obs --verbose
#...
debug: Found portal inhibitor
# ...
warning: ReadOne on org.freedesktop.portal.Settings returned an invalid reply
# ...
debug: Loading module: linux-pipewire.so
info: [pipewire] Available capture sources:
info: [pipewire] - Monitor source
info: [pipewire] - Window source
# ...
debug: source 'Scene' (scene) created
info: PipeWire initialized
debug: source 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' (pipewire-screen-capture-source) created
info: Switched to scene 'Scene'
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Loaded scenes:
info: - scene 'Scene':
info: - source: 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' (pipewire-screen-capture-source)
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: [pipewire] Screencast session created
debug: Attempted path: /usr/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/images/overflow.png
debug: [pipewire] Response to select source received
info: [pipewire] Asking for monitor and window
info: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
info: ==== Shutting down ==================================================
# ...
info: [portals] Request cancelled
#...
This seems to indicate some sort of permissions issue with Pipewire or WirePlumber and Wayland portals, as a "Monitor Source" option is not available under the "+ (Add Sources)" menu.
Checking a core dump from one of the OBS crashes shows: http://0x0.st/XFmb.txt
$ coredumpctl -1 gdb
# ...
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/obs'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
#0 0x00007765210a53f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x77650e764180 (LWP 6858))]
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007765210a53f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x000077652104c120 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000776523b87eec in bmalloc () from /usr/lib/libobs.so.30
# ...
Which appears to indicate the call to 'bmalloc' is the cause of the crash.
GDB appears to confirm this when running 'obs --verbose': http://0x0.st/XFme.txt (XWayland: http://0x0.st/XFB4.txt)
$ gdb obs
# ...
debug: source 'Scene' (scene) created
info: PipeWire initialized
debug: source 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' (pipewire-screen-capture-source) created
info: Switched to scene 'Scene'
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Loaded scenes:
info: - scene 'Scene':
info: - source: 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' (pipewire-screen-capture-source)
info: ------------------------------------------------
[Thread 0x7fff93fff6c0 (LWP 8250) exited]
info: [pipewire] Screencast session created
debug: Attempted path: /usr/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/images/overflow.png
debug: [pipewire] Response to select source received
info: [pipewire] Asking for monitor and window
info: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
info: [pipewire] source selected, setting up screencast
[New Thread 0x7fff922bc6c0 (LWP 8292)]
info: [pipewire] Server version: 1.2.7
info: [pipewire] Library version: 1.2.7
info: [pipewire] Header version: 1.2.7
Thread 1 "obs" received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x00007ffff2aa53f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff2aa53f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff2a4c120 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff5587eec in bmalloc () from /usr/lib/libobs.so.30
# ...
(gdb) c
Continuing.
bmalloc: Allocating 0 bytes is broken behavior, please fix your code!
# ...
*Currently installed obs-studio deps: http://0x0.st/XFmO.txt
**ALPM log of the pacman update that broke obs-studio: http://0x0.st/XFmJ.txt
Last edited by Nyctfall (2024-12-13 20:46:25)
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Having the same problem! Pleas tell me if you find a solution.
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Having the same problem! Pleas tell me if you find a solution.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgr … cman_cache or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/downgrade
I have to downgrade to a working version... haven't done so yet.
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Worksforme™ obs, ffmpeg and KDE from the repos, are you using a custom ffmpeg version? Are the corresponding xdg-desktop-portal installed, do you maybe have a conflict in started xdg portals if you have gnome and KDE installed at the same time? What GPU?
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Hi @V1del,
I'm honored to be in the presence of a legendary Archer, hope your day is going well!
According to GitHub user "AngryPenguinPL" on the GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "Crash when initializing PipeWire screen sharing since 31.0.0 (GNOME Wayland) #11617" thread, unfortunately this is an upstream issue.
It's confirmed to be fixed with the upstream patch: GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "libobs-opengl: Avoid trying to allocate 0 byte on Linux #11618", but GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "libobs-opengl: Fix for formats with zero modifiers #11638" looks like a more concise (untested) solution.
Since the only solution is a complete package rebuild and recompilation, I suppose that means this problem should either: 1) be on the GitLab Bug Tracker, or 2) be the reason why (foreshadowing) a potentially borked update in OBS Studio shouldn't be the go to decision made by upstream when they notice more rigorous testing methodologies are needed (see: GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "Memory allocator cleanups #6721" and GitHub obsproject/obs-studio "libobs/util: Crash on bmalloc(0) #11181").
are you using a custom ffmpeg version?
Answer: No.
See:
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`--> paclist extra | grep -E "^ffmpeg"
ffmpeg 2:7.1-3
ffmpeg4.4 4.4.5-1
ffmpegthumbs 24.08.3-2
and
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`--> expac -Qs '%n | %v | %r | %w | Built: %b | Installed: %l | %p | %V' '^ffmpeg\S*$'
ffmpeg | 2:7.1-3 | local | dependency | Built: Wed Nov 27 12:22:54 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 12:02:41 2024 | Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org> | Signature
ffmpeg4.4 | 4.4.5-1 | local | dependency | Built: Thu Oct 3 10:17:59 2024 | Installed: Fri Nov 8 19:06:06 2024 | Maxime Gauduin <alucryd@archlinux.org> | Signature
ffmpegthumbs | 24.08.3-2 | local | dependency | Built: Thu Nov 7 07:38:46 2024 | Installed: Fri Nov 8 19:07:01 2024 | Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org> | Signature
Are the corresponding xdg-desktop-portal installed, do you maybe have a conflict in started xdg portals if you have gnome and KDE installed at the same time?
Answer: Yes. And I am not experienced in identifying conflicts with GNOME and KDE Wayland Portals... but I do not believe that to be the case.
See:
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`--> expac -Qs '%n | %v | %r | %w | Built: %b | Installed: %l | %p | %V | "%M" files modified.' 'portal'
libportal | 0.8.1-1 | local | dependency | Built: Thu Sep 5 07:03:47 2024 | Installed: Fri Oct 4 18:12:38 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
libportal-gtk3 | 0.8.1-1 | local | dependency | Built: Thu Sep 5 07:03:47 2024 | Installed: Fri Oct 4 18:13:29 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
libportal-gtk4 | 0.8.1-1 | local | dependency | Built: Thu Sep 5 07:03:47 2024 | Installed: Fri Oct 4 18:12:38 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
xdg-desktop-portal | 1.18.4-2 | local | dependency | Built: Sat Nov 23 09:35:50 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 21:18:08 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome | 47.1-2 | local | dependency | Built: Wed Oct 30 02:36:42 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 21:18:08 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk | 1.15.1-2 | local | dependency | Built: Sun Apr 21 17:54:25 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 21:18:08 2024 | Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
xdg-desktop-portal-kde | 6.2.4-1 | local | dependency | Built: Wed Nov 27 05:53:40 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 21:18:08 2024 | Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr | 0.7.1-1 | local | dependency | Built: Fri Aug 9 02:15:56 2024 | Installed: Mon Dec 9 21:18:08 2024 | Carl Smedstad <carsme@archlinux.org> | Signature | "" files modified.
and
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`--> pacman -Qii libportal xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde xdg-desktop-portal-gnome xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Name : libportal
Version : 0.8.1-1
Description : GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/flatpak/libportal
Licenses : LGPL-3.0-only
Groups : None
Provides : libportal.so=1-64
Depends On : gcc-libs glib2 glibc libglib-2.0.so=0-64 libgobject-2.0.so=0-64 libgio-2.0.so=0-64
Optional Deps : libportal-docs: API documentation
libportal-gtk3: GTK 3 backend [installed]
libportal-gtk4: GTK 4 backend [installed]
libportal-qt5: Qt 5 backend
libportal-qt6: Qt 6 backend
xdg-desktop-portal: Portal service [installed]
Required By : epiphany gnome-boxes gnome-builder gnome-contacts gnome-maps libportal-gtk3 libportal-gtk4 nautilus totem
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 570.76 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Thu 05 Sep 2024 07:03:47 AM CDT
Install Date : Fri 04 Oct 2024 06:12:38 PM CDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=split
Name : xdg-desktop-portal
Version : 1.18.4-2
Description : Desktop integration portals for sandboxed apps
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/
Licenses : LGPL-2.1-or-later
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : fuse3 gcc-libs gdk-pixbuf2 glib2 glibc json-glib libpipewire pipewire rtkit systemd systemd-libs
Optional Deps : geoclue: Geolocation portal [installed]
xdg-desktop-portal-impl: Portal backends [installed]
Required By : flatpak krfb xdg-desktop-portal-gnome xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xdg-desktop-portal-kde xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Optional For : firefox firefox-developer-edition libportal telegram-desktop
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 2.18 MiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Sat 23 Nov 2024 09:35:50 AM CST
Install Date : Mon 09 Dec 2024 09:18:08 PM CST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=pkg
Name : xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Version : 6.2.4-1
Description : A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
Licenses : LGPL-2.0-or-later
Groups : plasma
Provides : xdg-desktop-portal-impl
Depends On : gcc-libs glibc kconfig kcoreaddons kcrash kglobalaccel kiconthemes ki18n kio kio-fuse kirigami kitemviews
knotifications kpipewire kservice kstatusnotifieritem kwayland kwindowsystem libxkbcommon plasma-workspace qt6-base
qt6-declarative qt6-wayland wayland xdg-desktop-portal
Optional Deps : None
Required By : lutris plasma-integration plasma-meta
Optional For : gnome-calendar xdg-desktop-portal
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 1535.44 KiB
Packager : Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Wed 27 Nov 2024 05:53:40 AM CST
Install Date : Mon 09 Dec 2024 09:18:08 PM CST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=pkg
Name : xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Version : 47.1-2
Description : Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Licenses : LGPL-2.1-or-later
Groups : gnome
Provides : xdg-desktop-portal-impl
Depends On : cairo dconf fontconfig gcc-libs gdk-pixbuf2 glib2 glibc gnome-desktop-4 graphene gtk4 libadwaita libx11 nautilus
wayland xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk>=1.10.0-2
Optional Deps : evince: Print previews [installed]
Required By : gnome-session lutris
Optional For : gnome-calendar xdg-desktop-portal
Conflicts With : xdg-desktop-portal-gtk<1.10.0-2
Replaces : xdg-desktop-portal-gtk<1.10.0-2
Installed Size : 801.69 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Wed 30 Oct 2024 02:36:42 AM CDT
Install Date : Mon 09 Dec 2024 09:18:08 PM CST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=pkg
Name : xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Version : 1.15.1-2
Description : A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Licenses : LGPL-2.0-or-later
Groups : None
Provides : xdg-desktop-portal-impl
Depends On : fontconfig gcc-libs gdk-pixbuf2 glib2 glibc gsettings-desktop-schemas gtk3 xdg-desktop-portal
Optional Deps : evince: Print preview [installed]
Required By : lutris xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Optional For : gnome-calendar plasma-workspace xdg-desktop-portal
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 433.31 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Sun 21 Apr 2024 05:54:25 PM CDT
Install Date : Mon 09 Dec 2024 09:18:08 PM CST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=pkg
Name : xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Version : 0.7.1-1
Description : xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Licenses : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : xdg-desktop-portal-impl
Depends On : glibc libdrm libinih libpipewire mesa pipewire pipewire-session-manager systemd-libs wayland xdg-desktop-portal
Optional Deps : bemenu: to choose which output to screencast using bemenu
slurp: to choose which output to screencast using slurp [installed]
wofi: to choose which output to screencast using wofi
Required By : lutris
Optional For : gnome-calendar xdg-desktop-portal
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 101.79 KiB
Packager : Carl Smedstad <carsme@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Fri 09 Aug 2024 02:15:56 AM CDT
Install Date : Mon 09 Dec 2024 09:18:08 PM CST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Backup Files : None
Extended Data : pkgtype=pkg
What GPU?
Answer: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB.
See:
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`--> lspci -kPPd '::03xx'
00:03.1/26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev e7)
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Radeon RX 580
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
and
.-(~)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(nyctdev@NfArch)-
`--> vainfo
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.3.1-arch1.3 for AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (radeonsi, polaris10, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.59, 6.12.4-arch1-1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
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