Window freeze and no longer responsive

[soraxas]

UPDATE: I don't think it's related only to resizing, as it just freezes on me without resizing. I've immediately checked the journalctl log but couldn't find anything relevant logs.

When resizing a window (Mod+r), sometimes it freezes, then the window is no longer responsive (see photo, where the right-side is niri trying to increase the size but it then hangs)

The image is with kitty terminal (under wayland) but the same happened to other applications before.

And in fact, I don't know how can i close that window anymore. It's just... there... Mod+Q can't close it, i can't interact with it. I can move it around (or to another workspace), but resizing and closing don't work. I can only tuck it away 😅

(side note: is there something like xkill in wayland that i can force close that window?)

Log

I'm not sure if this log is helpful or not

$ journalctl --user /usr/bin/niri 
Apr 03 08:58:55 xenon niri[1066334]: file descriptor expected, object (503), message add(huuuuu)
Apr 03 08:58:55 xenon niri[1066334]: error in client communication (pid 2415015)
Apr 03 08:59:08 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T22:59:08.604803Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 08:59:08 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T22:59:08.692611Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 08:59:20 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T22:59:20.955178Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:01:05 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:01:05.934079Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:01:24 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:01:24.885372Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:01:34 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:01:34.656085Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:01:41 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:01:41.844115Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:01:44 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:01:44.168108Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:14 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:14.939492Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:15 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:15.655745Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:15 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:15.908565Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:18 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:18.503538Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:26 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:26.698227Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:27 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:27.315016Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:31 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:31.385168Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:31 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:31.563062Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:33 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:03:33.970554Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:03:48 xenon niri[1066334]: file descriptor expected, object (456), message add(huuuuu)
Apr 03 09:03:48 xenon niri[1066334]: error in client communication (pid 2435971)
Apr 03 09:04:52 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:04:52.372327Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:04:57 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:04:57.538119Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:05:12 xenon niri[1066334]: file descriptor expected, object (460), message add(huuuuu)
Apr 03 09:05:12 xenon niri[1066334]: error in client communication (pid 2490190)
Apr 03 09:05:30 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:05:30.720628Z ERROR smithay::backend::renderer::gles: [GL] GL_INVALID_VALUE error generated. Size and/or offset out of range.
Apr 03 09:14:39 xenon niri[1066334]: 2025-04-02T23:14:39.903322Z DEBUG niri::niri: saving screenshot to "/home/soraxas/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot from 2025-04-03 09-14-39.png"

System Information

• niri version: niri 25.02 (unknown commit)

• Distro: Arch Garuda Linux

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX A6000

• CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7960X

[YaLTeR]

This is somewhat strange.

niri version: niri 25.02 (unknown commit)

Which commit?

[soraxas]

I'm on Arch package on 25.02 (https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/niri/), so it would be https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.02 the latest official release.

I can install the git version and observe its behaviour

[YaLTeR]

Yeah, try that please

[YaLTeR]

Any updates?

[soraxas]

Hi @YaLTeR thanks for your message. I've installed the git version for about a week and I think the window freezing issue was less frequent, but i think it had also happened on chrome during then. I was suspecting maybe it had something to do with xwayland satellite as I was also having some issue there. But unfortunately, I've been away from my work station due to redundancy and had only been on my Mac laptop since then, so I wasn't able to observe it any longer.

Happy to close it for now and will report here if I observe anything later on

[YaLTeR]

Yeah let's close for now