Popcorn-Time crashes on Wayland session with NVIDIA 390xx driver (libnw.so crash / core dumped) #3091
Description
Environment
- OS: Arch Linux (fully updated)
- Session: Wayland (Hyprland)
- GPU: NVIDIA legacy GPU (driver 390.157)
- Display output: VGA-0 (EDID read fails)
- Popcorn-Time: Latest release / built from source
- Electron/NW.js backend: bundled (
libnw.so)
Bug Description
Popcorn-Time crashes on launch in a Wayland session with legacy NVIDIA 390xx drivers. No window appears, and the process core dumps.
It appears related to libnw.so (NW.js), possibly due to legacy driver incompatibility or missing EGL/XWayland features.
Journal output:
#0 0x00007faa9f326eed syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x116eed)
#1 0x00007faa9e9387ae g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0)
...
#4 0x00007faaa5fb5d1d n/a (libnw.so + 0x6bb5d1d)
...
#11 0x00007faaa5fb659f n/a (libnw.so + 0x6bb659f)
#12 0x00007faa9f2a57eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x957eb)
systemd[1]: Process 1984867 (popcorntime) dumped core.