Qutebrowser installed by home-manager doesn't start: could not initialize GLX

[JonathanReeve]

Issue description

With programs.qutebrowser.enable = true, and using home-manager on Ubuntu, qutebrowser doesn't start, complaining that it can't initialize GLX.

To be honest, I don't really want home-manager to manage my installation of Qutebrowser, which is probably better done by my system—I just want it to manage my Qutebrowser configs. It'd be great if it were possible to have one but not the other.

FWIW, I can run Qutebrowser through my host system just fine, with /usr/bin/qutebrowser. But home-manager's version doesn't work.

The full error message is:

(process:23413): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:34:37.925: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Gtk-Message: 22:34:37.926: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 22:34:38.059: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 22:34:38.060: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
22:34:38 WARNING: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig for QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags<QSurfaceFormat::FormatOption>(), depthBufferSize -1, redBufferSize 1, greenBufferSize 1, blueBufferSize 1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize -1, samples -1, swapBehavior QSurfaceFormat::SingleBuffer, swapInterval 1, colorSpace QSurfaceFormat::DefaultColorSpace, profile  QSurfaceFormat::NoProfile)
22:34:38 WARNING: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig for QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags<QSurfaceFormat::FormatOption>(), depthBufferSize -1, redBufferSize 1, greenBufferSize 1, blueBufferSize 1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize -1, samples -1, swapBehavior QSurfaceFormat::SingleBuffer, swapInterval 1, colorSpace QSurfaceFormat::DefaultColorSpace, profile  QSurfaceFormat::NoProfile)
22:34:38 CRITICAL: Could not initialize GLX
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007f591b673240 (most recent call first):
  File "/nix/store/910621igsv9ihfjw27bjw6d0clxaadra-qutebrowser-1.12.0/lib/python3.7/site-packages/qutebrowser/app.py", line 478 in __init__
  File "/nix/store/910621igsv9ihfjw27bjw6d0clxaadra-qutebrowser-1.12.0/lib/python3.7/site-packages/qutebrowser/app.py", line 92 in run
  File "/nix/store/910621igsv9ihfjw27bjw6d0clxaadra-qutebrowser-1.12.0/lib/python3.7/site-packages/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.py", line 203 in main
  File "/nix/store/910621igsv9ihfjw27bjw6d0clxaadra-qutebrowser-1.12.0/bin/.qutebrowser-wrapped", line 9 in <module>
fish: 'qutebrowser' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.4.0-7634-generic, Pop!_OS, 20.04 LTS
• multi-user?: no
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.6
• channels(jon): "home-manager, nixpkgs-20.09pre228453.dcb64ea42e6"
• nixpkgs: /home/jon/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs

[wedens]

That's a general problem with gpu drivers in Nix on non-NixOS. You can try https://github.com/guibou/nixGL/ as a workaround.

[wedens]

Your other options are:

1. Use home-manager to just copy config file in the original format to expected place: xdg.configFile."qutebrowser/config.py".source = ./config.py;

2. Continue using Nix as a config format and override (e.g. add to an overlay) qutebrowser derivation with a stub that just invokes non-Nix qutebrowser:

self: super: {
  qutebrowser = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "qutebrowser" ''
    /usr/bin/qutebrowser "$@"
  '';
}

It's kinda dirty, but should work as long as no files from original derivation are required.

[JonathanReeve]

Ah. I guess I can just override the .desktop file. What'd be great though is if there were a way to skip installation of the package. Something like qutebrowser.installBinary = false.

[teto]

some modules have a package option that can be set to null.

[JonathanReeve]

How hard would it be to add one of those options? Sounds useful.

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[wedens]

Not hard at all. For example, see: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/blob/master/modules/services/polybar.nix#L35-L48

[JonathanReeve]

Ok I'm not an expert in Nix, but PR #1334 is my attempt at that.