Albert segfaults immediately

[agboom]

Source

From Arch User Repository, using yaourt: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/albert/

Environment

        Albert version: v0.14.22
            Build date: Dec  2 2018 13:53:12
            Qt version: 5.11.2
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: gtk3
       Binary location: /usr/bin/albert
                   PWD: /home/<user>
                 SHELL: /usr/bin/zsh
                  LANG: en_US.utf8
      XDG_SESSION_TYPE: 
   XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: 
       DESKTOP_SESSION: 
   XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: sway
                    OS: Arch Linux
     OS (type/version): arch/unknown
             Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
  Arch (build/current): x86_64/x86_64
 Kernel (type/version): linux/4.19.2-arch1-1-ARCH

Steps to reproduce

• Clean install of Albert 0.14.22 (built from source, PKGBUILD)
• Run albert from terminal
• See segmentation fault.

Expected behaviour

No segmentation fault.

Actual behaviour

Segmentation fault.

Debug:

16:04:17 [INFO] Systems icon theme is: "Flattr"
16:04:17 [DEBG] Creating IPC server
16:04:17 [DEBG] Initializing mandatory paths
16:04:17 [DEBG] Setup signal handlers
16:04:17 [DEBG] Creating running indicator file
16:04:17 [WARN] Application has not been terminated graciously.
16:04:17 [DEBG] Initializing core components
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  albert -d

[zetorian]

I can confirm this happens to me as well, running on sway 1.0-beta.1-245-gdbf8e1ce
perhaps this is sway related?

edit: setting QT_QPA_PLATFORM="" fixes the issue, although then it is running on xwayland which I would like to avoid

[agboom]

@zetorian Running QT_QPA_PLATFORM="" albert does seem to fix it. It states on their troubleshooting page, that Wayland is not supported yet, so I think starting it as an X program is the proper workaround for now.

[zetorian]

@agboom perhaps it would be better to print an error instead of segfault, until wayland works better at least?

[agboom]

@zetorian That would help to identify the problem faster, yes. Segfaults are never so friendly

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Continue discussion at #958.