Sober not opening after new update

[visinoiugabi]

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Sober Flatpak Hang at global_window_init (Linux Mint, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti)

Description

When running Sober (v1.6.7) via Flatpak on Linux Mint with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti (driver 580.126.09), the application hangs indefinitely at global_window_init. This occurs when launching the actual Roblox client, but not when running the Sober onboarding/downloader UI.

The issue persists even when overriding Flatpak sandboxing components or testing various rendering engines.

System Information

• OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena (XFCE 4.18.1 on X11)
• Kernel: 6.12.60-x64v3-xanmod1 (also tested on 6.17.0-19-generic)
• GPU: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
• NVIDIA Driver: 580.126.09 (Proprietary)
• Flatpak Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/49
• Sober Version: 1.6.7 (Commit 24d0ff6d0bb8d1ba570a2c4ffc681af1db97396fa55a65cd31c9513313ea35da)

Reproduction Steps

1. Install Sober via Flathub (flatpak install org.vinegarhq.Sober)
2. Run flatpak run org.vinegarhq.Sober
3. The onboarding UI downloads and installs the Roblox client successfully.
4. When the Roblox client attempts to launch, the process hangs in the terminal at global_window_init and no window appears.

Troubleshooting Attempted (All Failed to Resolve the Hang)

• Disabled NVIDIA GSP Firmware via NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 in modprobe (though Pascal GPUs officially don't utilize GSP).
• Wiped all Sober data (~/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/* and config/sober/*) and completely reinstalled the Flatpak with --delete-data.
• Bypassed Mint's global GTK3 CSD overrides by unsetting LD_PRELOAD (flatpak override --user --env=LD_PRELOAD= org.vinegarhq.Sober): Avoids the libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 error in logs, but hang persists.
• Disabled Wayland socket fallback (--nosocket=wayland).
• Disabled Discord RPC integration ("discord_rpc_enabled": false).
• Forced OpenGL rendering ("use_opengl": true).
• Forced software rendering (LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1).

The hang behavior is severe; the background bwrap and sober processes frequently enter an uninterruptible sleep state (D-state) where standard kill -9 commands either hang or fail to clean up the process tree.

Latest Log Output

info: app: lifecycle: logging_started delta=100.61139599978924ms
info: app: app tag: s095-2028-x86_64-gnu
info: app: cpu model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
info: app: os release: 
info: app: host os release: Linux Mint
info: app: desktop: XFCE (on x11)
info: app: lifecycle: update_flags_from_remote_manifest delta=0.051466000033542514ms
info: state: using manifest object: {"app_settings":{"FFlagRenderUseTextureManager224":false},"r1":1,"u":1}
info: window: using C.UTF-8 locale
info: app: lifecycle: runtime_handler delta=179.79467099998146ms
info: app: lifecycle: fs_init delta=0.049100000178441405ms
I/O warning : failed to load "/home/gabriel/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/appData/GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml": No such file or directory
WARN: state: could not parse file /home/gabriel/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/appData/GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml
info: app: lifecycle: check_security delta=735.3375559998676ms
info: app$json: {"product_name":"To be filled by O.E.M.","product_version":"To be filled by O.E.M.","type":"device_product_info"}
info: app: lifecycle: core_runtime delta=0.08189600007608533ms
info: app: lifecycle: app_core delta=507.0850269999355ms
info: app: lifecycle: devices_init delta=3224.2250389999244ms
info: app: lifecycle: global_window_init delta=0.011248000198975205ms

[coleslawsalad]

I'm also having this issue on RTX 3050 TI [mobile]

[Sergwest585]

I'm not sure about you, but it helped me to specify a proxy through env ALL_PROXY

[coleslawsalad]

I fixed it by deleting all of the files from the ~/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober and enabling openGl.

[SentimeterGG]

I fixed it by deleting all of the files from the ~/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober and enabling openGl.

i tried that and didn't work for me 😔

[ethixill]

guys are you still have the problem now?
when i move to debian and install sober i had the some problem and isnt fixing btw
any solution or wait some update?

[SentimeterGG]

Yoo, i think the problem is Sober couldn't make a window on X11, i tried testing it by configuring the Sober using Flatseal and change disable X11, Fallback X11 and Enable Wayland and i tried launching it into weston and it worked

sober.log

soo maybe try launching inside wayland DE and disable those settings on Flatseal to make sure the Sober app is rendering using Wayland (sorry for my bad english)

[SentimeterGG]

i managed to get it working with gamescope but it hell to setup so i recommend just switch to Wayland DE

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