@PipPaine @Alex&Indie did you find a workaround to your broken gamescope issue? Rollbacks, upgrades,

@PipPaine @Alex&Indie did you find a workaround to your broken gamescope issue? Rollbacks, upgrades, rebasing to earlier versions that worked before I did

rpm-ostree upgrade

rpm-ostree upgrade

rpm-ostree upgrade

rpm-ostree upgrade all still have black screen gamescope on boot so I'm thinking it must be either something in the kernel, bios or home folder that has changed to cause it to persist throughout

BBearFOX @PipPaine @Alex&Indie did you find a workaround to your broken gamescope issue? ...

Alex&Indie•2/26/24, 1:28 PM

my deck is on pause, i dont have time to deal with it, gonna make a fresh bazzite install in these days

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 2:01 PM

Okay thanks, I'm trying to avoid that myself. It's my main computer.
It does seem the "return to game mode" .desktop file does launch game mode successfully at least

HHikariKnight your `.bashrc` might be broken, `cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc` and if you have...

gradientdissent•2/26/24, 2:44 PM

FWIW, I had the exact same problem Geechan described after the most recent update, except unlike them, in my case running cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrccp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc fully fixed the issue, with MOTD showing up correctly. At least in my case, the issue was that ~/.bashrc~/.bashrc just didn't exist at all - which is weird because prior to the update everything was working fine, which implies the file originally existed, so I'm not sure what could have caused it to disappear. Anyway, hope this info is of some use for debugging!

AAlex&Indie my deck is on pause, i dont have time to deal with it, gonna make a fresh bazzit...

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 2:59 PM

why would there need to be a fresh reinstall for an immutable os? I can see why you want ~/ to be refreshed but the core system is immutable

tryhardsoccermomswag•2/26/24, 4:06 PM

@dnkmmr @Alex&Indie @BearFOX did you use the

ujust

ujust

command that autostarts desktop mode as opposed to game mode in -deck-deck images

Ttryhardsoccermomswag @dnkmmr @Alex&Indie @BearFOX did you use the `ujust` command that autostarts des...

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:11 PM

what is the default?

Ddnkmmr what is the default?

tryhardsoccermomswag•2/26/24, 4:11 PM

boot into game mode on startup

BBearFOX @PipPaine @Alex&Indie did you find a workaround to your broken gamescope issue? ...

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:12 PM

not seeing any gamescope crashes in any of the logs I've been sent

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:12 PM

and I'm unable to reproduce this on my LCD or OLED decks

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:12 PM

May be a steam crash rather than gamescope

KKyle Gospo and I'm unable to reproduce this on my LCD or OLED decks

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:12 PM

are you on gnome or kde. I am on kde

Ddnkmmr are you on gnome or kde. I am on kde

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:12 PM

both

KKyle Gospo not seeing any gamescope crashes in any of the logs I've been sent

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:13 PM

you checked the ones in #Gamescope frequently crashes on boot ?

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:13 PM

yup

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:14 PM

basically nothing in those

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:14 PM

there's separate logs for steam and for the params it's launched with, 4 in total

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:14 PM

would help to have all 4

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:14 PM

Okay so I found that if I delete the gamescope folder in home/deck/.config then on next boot gamescope WILL load normally

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:14 PM

But on next boot when that folder has been regenerated, it boots gamescope to black screen

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:15 PM

That's consistent as I've checked three times over for each scenario where the folder is there / isn't

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:16 PM

I also see the steam runtime environment gets setup again if I had deleted the gamescope folder

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:16 PM

when did this start? Last gamescope build was 15 days ago and it's the same version we built over 2 months ago

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:16 PM

3.13.19

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:17 PM

For me it started when I updated to 23rd Feb build. But I'd been on a December or January build before that as I don't update if I have a active game I'm playing through

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:18 PM

It doesn't seem to matter which build I'm on since then, as I'm currently rebased to Feb 5th

KKyle Gospo when did this start? Last gamescope build was 15 days ago and it's the same vers...

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:18 PM

Could it be possible to have a systemd service that will attempt to reload gamescope if it crashes?

Ddnkmmr Could it be possible to have a systemd service that will attempt to reload games...

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:19 PM

Would that not just be an infinite loop? It's a session

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:20 PM

really don't want to implement hacks like that, rather we found out what's affecting both of you

KKyle Gospo Would that not just be an infinite loop? It's a session

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:20 PM

or display some sort of error or even give the user an option to boot to desktop?

Ddnkmmr or display some sort of error or even give the user an option to boot to desktop...

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:20 PM

It should boot to desktop assuming the session crashes, that's the behavior I get

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:20 PM

so I'm doubly curious what's going on w/ your installs

KKyle Gospo so I'm doubly curious what's going on w/ your installs

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:21 PM

IDK. I don't have any layered packages installed

KKyle Gospo there's separate logs for steam and for the params it's launched with, 4 in tota...

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:25 PM

here are all my logs from HOME. it includes the log.old files too as my last two boots were a successful gamescope boot and an unsuccessful black screen boot https://we.tl/t-LjH9ZEqvaV

.gamescope-cmd.log

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BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:26 PM

let me know if you prefer me to send them another way

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:34 PM

Of those files, .log is the successful gamescope session, .log.old is the black screen gamescope
The drm:drm: messages are where the boots differ in the two .gamescope-stdout files I provided

matt_schwartz•2/26/24, 4:50 PM

weird, looks like its not seeing your internal display connector for some reason in the failed log

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:50 PM

I reccomend using cat logfile | fpastecat logfile | fpaste instead

Mmatt_schwartz weird, looks like its not seeing your internal display connector for some reason...

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:51 PM

oo, good catch

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:51 PM

wasn't looking that early

Kyle Gospo•2/26/24, 4:51 PM

first one says it's DVI??

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:51 PM

Yeah but only when there are files in /home/deck/.config/gamescope

So I deleted the contents and set the folder perms to unwritable and now gamescope boots properly every time

KKyle Gospo first one says it's DVI??

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:52 PM

This is undocked LCD Deck btw

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 4:52 PM

I have sunshine rpm layered but dnkmmr doesn't, so it shouldn't be that

BBearFOX Yeah but only when there are files in /home/deck/.config/gamescope So I deleted...

dnkmmr•2/26/24, 4:56 PM

will that break my system?

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 5:02 PM

I have been regularly clearing the contents of this folder to get a successful boot but this is the first time I removed the write permission for owner/owning group. It's booted twice fine since. Logs show that it failed to open edid.bin.tmp but then it moved on and boots anyway

BearFOXOP•2/26/24, 5:03 PM

But i'd say be prepared to have a way to revert that change (via a liveCD or something) should it cause you trouble

matt_schwartz•2/26/24, 5:04 PM

I believe that folder is usually how Gamescope corrects your display orientation and presents it as a native landscape display to programs running in Gamescope

matt_schwartz•2/26/24, 5:05 PM

it writes a temporary EDID into that folder and reads from there the next time you boot

matt_schwartz•2/26/24, 5:05 PM

or session-switch I suppose

matt_schwartz•2/26/24, 5:05 PM

so perhaps it ends up writing the wrong display info and reads from that, leading to a crash

@PipPaine @Alex&Indie did you find a workaround to your broken gamescope issue? Rollbacks, upgrades,

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