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forestoner42174

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Registered: 2026-03-04

Posts: 12

Waydroid Won't Launch In Weston

I am currently having an issue with launching waydroid on my laptop.
Describing the issue, I would launch waydroid via the weston terminal by opening the terminal (in weston) and executing the following:

waydroid show-full-ui

This results in a blank black screen opening and closing itself repeatedly in quick succession.
The following errors also repeatedly show up in my (xfce) terminal.

Error during import, and no known conversion for format AB24 in the renderer
libwayland: error in client communication (pid 16381)

I would appreciate any help.
Thank you.

Specs: (output of inxi -Fxz)

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.75-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC
    v: 098C110000404100000610180 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2166 v: 29.40 serial: <superuser required>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: Insyde v: F.42 date: 12/04/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.8 Wh (100%) condition: 20.8/20.8 Wh (100%)
    volts: 16.88 min: 14.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-4500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Haswell rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2780 min/max: 800/3000 cores: 1: 2780 2: 2780 3: 2780
    4: 2780 bogomips: 19161
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02 arch: Kepler-2 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
  Device-3: Chicony HP Truevision HD camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 2-3:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,kms_swrast,nvidia,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 470.256.02
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M/PCIe/SSE2
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings
    gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.75-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 08:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 09:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: CloudflareWARP state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Ralink RT3290 Bluetooth vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A
    bus-ID: 08:00.1
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 135.45 GiB (56.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda model: SSD-256G size: 238.47 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 237.47 GiB used: 135.29 GiB (57.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot size: 1022 MiB used: 167.5 MiB (16.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-3: /home size: 237.47 GiB used: 135.29 GiB (57.0%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-4: /var/log size: 237.47 GiB used: 135.29 GiB (57.0%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 4 GiB used: 709.7 MiB (17.3%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 51 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.69 GiB used: 3.26 GiB (42.4%)
  Processes: 249 Uptime: 4h 18m Init: systemd
  Packages: 1337 Compilers: clang: 21.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9
    inxi: 3.3.40

Last edited by forestoner42174 (2026-03-08 12:22:08)