Black Minecraft Window - any version

[jaimemoo]

/When launching minecraft, a new window appears but it's all black and non-interactive. Also will not close - have to kill -9 it.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Try to PLAY minecraft - any version.

Expected behavior
Loads the game like usual and allows gameplay/

Screenshots
It's just a black window w/ the "Minecraft" titlebar.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Fedora 42 - Linux
• Version: 3bffa92
• Installation Type: compiled from github repo on Oct. 2nd 2025 at 6:15am Central US time

Additional context
Command line output:

06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Version: client 3bffa92 / manifest 9de239f
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] OS: Linux
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Arch: x86_64
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] CPU supports SSSE3: YES
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Reading Launcher Settings File: /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/mcpelauncher-client-settings.txt
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Applied Launcher Settings
06:18:27 Trace [Launcher] Loading android libraries
06:18:27 Trace [Launcher] linker loaded
06:18:27 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/com.mojang.minecraftpe to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
06:18:27 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/usr/local/proc/157631/cmdline to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
06:18:27 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/usr/local/bin/mcpelauncher-client to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
06:18:27 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
06:18:27 Trace [REDIRECT] . to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.21.111.1/assets/
06:18:27 Trace [LinkerUtils] Loaded OS library libm.so.6
06:18:27 Trace [LinkerUtils] Loaded OS library libz.so.1
06:18:27 Info  [FMOD] Failed to load host libfmod: 'Failed to find data file: lib/native/x86_64/libfmod.so.12.0', use pulseaudio/sdl3 backend with android fmod if available
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings
06:18:27 Trace [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings: /usr/local/share/mcpelauncher/gamecontrollerdb.txt
06:18:27 Trace [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings: /usr/local/share/mcpelauncher/gamecontrollerdb.txt
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Creating window
06:18:27 Trace [Launcher] Loading Minecraft library
Found hook: SwappyGL_init @ 0x428290
Found hook: SwappyGL_destroy @ 0x4282a0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getFenceTimeoutNS @ 0x4282b0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getRefreshPeriodNanos @ 0x4282c0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getSupportedRefreshPeriodsNS @ 0x4282d0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getSwapIntervalNS @ 0x4282e0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getUseAffinity @ 0x4282f0
Found hook: SwappyGL_isEnabled @ 0x428300
Found hook: SwappyGL_setBufferStuffingFixWait @ 0x428310
Found hook: SwappyGL_setFenceTimeoutNS @ 0x428320
Found hook: SwappyGL_setSwapIntervalNS @ 0x428330
Found hook: SwappyGL_setUseAffinity @ 0x428340
Found hook: SwappyGL_setWindow @ 0x428350
Found hook: SwappyGL_enableFramePacing @ 0x428360
Found hook: SwappyGL_swap @ 0x428370
Found hook: APerformanceHint_getManager @ 0x428380
Found hook: APerformanceHint_closeSession @ 0x428390
Found hook: APerformanceHint_createSession @ 0x4283a0
Found hook: APerformanceHint_reportActualWorkDuration @ 0x4283b0
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform16showMousePointerEv @ 0x53d390
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform16hideMousePointerEv @ 0x53d370
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform17setFullscreenModeE14FullscreenMode @ 0x53d3c0
Found hook: GameActivity_finish @ 0x530930
Found hook: _ZN4FMOD6System4initEijPv @ 0x68b170
Found hook: _ZN4FMOD6System9setOutputE15FMOD_OUTPUTTYPE @ 0x68a760
Found hook: _ZN3rtc10getifaddrsEPP7ifaddrs @ 0x6b2300
Found hook: _ZN3rtc11freeifaddrsEP7ifaddrs @ 0x6b25f0
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Loaded Minecraft library
06:18:27 Debug [Launcher] Minecraft is at offset 0x7FA989940000
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Game version: 0.0.0.0
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Applying patches
06:18:27 Debug [CorePatches] Failed to patch, vtable _ZTV21AppPlatform_android23 not found
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Initializing JNI
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeRegisterThis
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeWithApplicationContext
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeUnregisterThis
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeXboxLive
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeinitializeLibHttpClient
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeLibHttpClient
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_microsoft_xal_browser_WebView_urlOperationSucceeded
06:18:27 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_PlayIntegrity_nativePlayIntegrityComplete
06:18:27 Trace [Minecraft] Entering JNI_OnLoad 0x7fa9aa63f6c0
06:18:27 Trace [Minecraft] JNI_OnLoad completed
06:18:27 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking nativeRegisterThis
06:18:27 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking GameActivity_onCreate
06:18:27 Info  [Launcher] Executing main thread
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_new called
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_fromAssetManager called
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_getLanguage called
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_getCountry called
06:18:27 Info  [Minecraft] android_main starting. internalDataPath is '/internal', externalDataPath is '/external'
06:18:27 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking start activity callbacks
06:18:27 Error [MCPE] *** setCachedDeviceId(54569f54-f90e-484a-8897-d07cda578f9f)
06:18:27 Info  [Bedrock] Breakpad config: directory is: /crash, sessionid is: 8c54ad6a-104e-469b-8ba3-094359270b74
06:18:27 Info  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - AppPlatform_android::setStorageDirectory - using External dir (NEW) - CurrentFileStoragePath is now '/home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/'
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - [Graphics] The graphics context was gained
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - [Graphics] The graphics context was gained
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] MinecraftGame::init && MinecraftGame::setSize!
06:18:27 Warn  [FakeEGL] eglQueryString 308d
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
06:18:27 Info  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - AppPlatform_android::setStorageDirectory - using AppData dir - CurrentFileStoragePath is now '/home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/'
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
06:18:27 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
06:18:27 Info  [Trace] Unable to load NDK tracing APIs
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - Image failed to load from memory 	Reason: unknown image type
06:18:27 Warn  [Main] Android stub AAssetManager_fromJava called

[jaimemoo]

This was working yesterday for older versions. Possibly in the attempt to fix Bug#1364, this bug was introduced? I'm only adding this comment about 1364 because it would seem to be related - though I don't know all the changes that may have occurred to the codebase. Simply hoping to help narrow down where any coding errors may have occurred/been-introduced.

[jaimemoo]

This logfile shows 1.21.111.1 but this also happens on 1.21.101.1 which was working yesterday.

I searched the codebase to try finding the error output message but with no success - could this be coming directly from the MC app itself?

I tried to find a crash report from the app itself, but couldn't locate one.

[jaimemoo]

on a crazy whim, I decided to 2x check the log of running 1.21.101.1 (instead of just observing the blank window):

08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Version: client 3bffa92 / manifest 9de239f
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] OS: Linux
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Arch: x86_64
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] CPU supports SSSE3: YES
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Reading Launcher Settings File: /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/mcpelauncher-client-settings.txt
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Applied Launcher Settings
08:51:31 Trace [Launcher] Loading android libraries
08:51:31 Trace [Launcher] linker loaded
08:51:31 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/com.mojang.minecraftpe to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
08:51:31 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/usr/local/proc/164425/cmdline to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
08:51:31 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data/usr/local/bin/mcpelauncher-client to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
08:51:31 Trace [REDIRECT] /data/data to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
08:51:31 Trace [REDIRECT] . to /home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.21.101.1/assets/
08:51:31 Trace [LinkerUtils] Loaded OS library libm.so.6
08:51:31 Trace [LinkerUtils] Loaded OS library libz.so.1
08:51:31 Info  [FMOD] Failed to load host libfmod: 'Failed to find data file: lib/native/x86_64/libfmod.so.12.0', use pulseaudio/sdl3 backend with android fmod if available
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings
08:51:31 Trace [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings: /usr/local/share/mcpelauncher/gamecontrollerdb.txt
08:51:31 Trace [Launcher] Loading gamepad mappings: /usr/local/share/mcpelauncher/gamecontrollerdb.txt
08:51:31 Info  [Launcher] Creating window
08:51:31 Trace [Launcher] Loading Minecraft library
Found hook: SwappyGL_init @ 0x428290
Found hook: SwappyGL_destroy @ 0x4282a0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getFenceTimeoutNS @ 0x4282b0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getRefreshPeriodNanos @ 0x4282c0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getSupportedRefreshPeriodsNS @ 0x4282d0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getSwapIntervalNS @ 0x4282e0
Found hook: SwappyGL_getUseAffinity @ 0x4282f0
Found hook: SwappyGL_isEnabled @ 0x428300
Found hook: SwappyGL_setBufferStuffingFixWait @ 0x428310
Found hook: SwappyGL_setFenceTimeoutNS @ 0x428320
Found hook: SwappyGL_setSwapIntervalNS @ 0x428330
Found hook: SwappyGL_setUseAffinity @ 0x428340
Found hook: SwappyGL_setWindow @ 0x428350
Found hook: SwappyGL_enableFramePacing @ 0x428360
Found hook: SwappyGL_swap @ 0x428370
Found hook: APerformanceHint_getManager @ 0x428380
Found hook: APerformanceHint_closeSession @ 0x428390
Found hook: APerformanceHint_createSession @ 0x4283a0
Found hook: APerformanceHint_reportActualWorkDuration @ 0x4283b0
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform16showMousePointerEv @ 0x53d390
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform16hideMousePointerEv @ 0x53d370
Found hook: _ZN11AppPlatform17setFullscreenModeE14FullscreenMode @ 0x53d3c0
Found hook: GameActivity_finish @ 0x530930
Found hook: _ZN4FMOD6System4initEijPv @ 0x68b170
Found hook: _ZN4FMOD6System9setOutputE15FMOD_OUTPUTTYPE @ 0x68a760
Found hook: _ZN3rtc10getifaddrsEPP7ifaddrs @ 0x6b2300
Found hook: _ZN3rtc11freeifaddrsEP7ifaddrs @ 0x6b25f0
08:51:32 Info  [Launcher] Loaded Minecraft library
08:51:32 Debug [Launcher] Minecraft is at offset 0x7EFCA6880000
08:51:32 Info  [Launcher] Game version: 0.0.0.0
08:51:32 Info  [Launcher] Applying patches
08:51:32 Debug [CorePatches] Failed to patch, vtable _ZTV21AppPlatform_android23 not found
08:51:32 Info  [Launcher] Initializing JNI
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeRegisterThis
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeWithApplicationContext
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeUnregisterThis
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeXboxLive
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeinitializeLibHttpClient
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_MainActivity_nativeInitializeLibHttpClient
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_microsoft_xal_browser_WebView_urlOperationSucceeded
08:51:32 Error [JniSupport] Missing native symbol: Java_com_mojang_minecraftpe_PlayIntegrity_nativePlayIntegrityComplete
08:51:32 Trace [Minecraft] Entering JNI_OnLoad 0x7efcd4d3f6c0
08:51:32 Info  [Launcher] Executing main thread
08:51:32 Trace [Minecraft] JNI_OnLoad completed
08:51:32 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking nativeRegisterThis
08:51:32 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking GameActivity_onCreate
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_new called
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_fromAssetManager called
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_getLanguage called
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub AConfiguration_getCountry called
08:51:32 Info  [Minecraft] android_main starting. internalDataPath is '/internal', externalDataPath is '/external'
08:51:32 Trace [JniSupport] Invoking start activity callbacks
08:51:32 Error [MCPE] *** setCachedDeviceId(54569f54-f90e-484a-8897-d07cda578f9f)
08:51:32 Info  [Bedrock] Breakpad config: directory is: /crash, sessionid is: c1fa4d00-fa82-42dd-bc7a-afdd42853db3
08:51:32 Info  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - AppPlatform_android::setStorageDirectory - using External dir (NEW) - CurrentFileStoragePath is now '/home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/'
08:51:32 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - [Graphics] The graphics context was gained
08:51:32 Warn  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - [Graphics] The graphics context was gained
08:51:32 Warn  [Minecraft] MinecraftGame::init && MinecraftGame::setSize!
08:51:32 Warn  [FakeEGL] eglQueryString 308d
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
08:51:32 Info  [Minecraft] NO LOG FILE! - AppPlatform_android::setStorageDirectory - using AppData dir - CurrentFileStoragePath is now '/home/USERNAME_SCRUBBED/.local/share/mcpelauncher/'
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Vendor: Intel
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1)
08:51:32 Info  [GL] Version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.1.9
08:51:32 Warn  [Main] Android stub ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry called
08:51:32 Info  [Trace] Unable to load NDK tracing APIs
08:51:33 Warn  [Main] Android stub AAssetManager_fromJava called

Notice it's not getting hung up on any missing images.. but still yields the same non-responsive blank window.

Hope it helps!

[jaimemoo]

as of my latest rebuild from github code at 7:30pm US Central time, I no longer get the perpetual black, non-responsive screen. I am able to play older versions ( specifically 1.21.101.1 )

Thanks for fixing this so quickly! ( even if it was inadvertent ;-) )