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Crashes almost every boot#566
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@heynnema
heynnema
opened on Mar 1, 2022

Ubuntu 21.10

touchegg crashes almost every boot

version 202201222146-stable-2.0.13~ubuntu21.10.1

touchegg crashed with SIGABRT (from the .crash log)

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  1. JoseExposito commented on Mar 5, 2022

    @JoseExposito
    JoseExposito
    on Mar 5, 2022
    Owner

    Hi and thanks for your bug report.

    I guess you are using GNOME and you are seeing a notification of the crash?

    After the crash, does Touchégg start working after 5-10 seconds? Or do you have to manually restart it?

    After the crash, if you run touchegg --debug in the terminal, what's the output?

    Also, please make sure you are in the X11 session, Touchégg won't work in the Wayland session:
    https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg#does-touch%C3%A9gg-work-on-wayland

  2. rprinsen commented on Mar 30, 2022

    @rprinsen
    rprinsen
    on Mar 30, 2022

    I have the same issue. Right after logging in, it shows the crash dialog.
    Touchégg keeps working though.

    running touchegg --debug shows the same crash report dialog though.
    Could it be that touchegg is started twice at boot? Is there a way to check that?

  3. JoseExposito commented on Mar 30, 2022

    @JoseExposito
    JoseExposito
    on Mar 30, 2022
    Owner

    Hi @rprinsen

    Could you share the output of touchegg --debug, please?

    Also, the output of sudo journalctl -u touchegg -b would be helpful.

  4. rprinsen commented on Mar 30, 2022

    @rprinsen
    rprinsen
    on Mar 30, 2022

    For sure, here's the output of journalctl:

    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: Started Touchégg Daemon.
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Touchégg v2.0.13.
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Starting Touchégg in daemon mode
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Starting daemon server...
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Generating D-Bus introspection data
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Creating D-Bus server
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Server started at address unix:abstract=touchegg
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: A list of detected compatible devices will be displayed below:
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Compatible device detected:
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Name: SYNA2393:00 06CB:7A13 Touchpad
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Size: 102.333mm x 77.3333mm
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Calculating start_threshold and finish_threshold. You can tune this values in your service file
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: start_threshold: 30.4462
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: finish_threshold_horizontal: 362.598
    mrt 30 18:32:40 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: finish_threshold_vertical: 274.016
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: what(): Error initialising Touchégg: libinput open.
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: Touchégg should be run in daemon mode by systemd in order to be part of the 'input' group and have access to your touchpad.
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: If you prefer to run Touchégg without using systemd, please execute the following command:
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: $ sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: And reboot to solve this issue
    mrt 30 18:32:44 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
    mrt 30 18:32:44 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: Stopped Touchégg Daemon.
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 systemd[1]: Started Touchégg Daemon.
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Touchégg v2.0.13.
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Starting Touchégg in daemon mode
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Starting daemon server...
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Generating D-Bus introspection data
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Creating D-Bus server
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Server started at address unix:abstract=touchegg
    mrt 30 18:32:49 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: A list of detected compatible devices will be displayed below:
    mrt 30 18:32:51 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: New client connection request
    mrt 30 18:32:51 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: New client connected
    mrt 30 18:32:52 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: New client connection request
    mrt 30 18:32:52 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: New client connected
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Compatible device detected:
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Name: Apple Inc. Magic Trackpad 2
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Size: 161.957mm x 115.114mm
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Calculating start_threshold and finish_threshold. You can tune this values in your service file
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: start_threshold: 45.3203
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: finish_threshold_horizontal: 573.865
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: finish_threshold_vertical: 407.883
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Compatible device detected:
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Name: SYNA2393:00 06CB:7A13 Touchpad
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Size: 102.333mm x 77.3333mm
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: Calculating start_threshold and finish_threshold. You can tune this values in your service file
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: start_threshold: 30.4462
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: finish_threshold_horizontal: 362.598
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: finish_threshold_vertical: 274.016
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: libinput error: event21 - Apple Inc. Magic Trackpad 2: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
    mrt 30 18:32:55 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[2496]: See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.18.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details

  5. rprinsen commented on Mar 30, 2022

    @rprinsen
    rprinsen
    on Mar 30, 2022

    when running touchegg --debug it complains there's already a instance running, which checks out because systemd restarts the service

  6. JoseExposito commented on Mar 30, 2022

    @JoseExposito
    JoseExposito
    on Mar 30, 2022
    Owner

    Thanks for the logs. Touchégg runs in 2 different processes, the systemd daemon and the client. It looks like the daemon is crashing and probably displaying the notification in GNOME:

    mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
mrt 30 18:32:43 rienk-XPS-15-9570 touchegg[1197]: what(): Error initialising Touchégg: libinput open.

    I'll try to add more logs and reproduce the error here to see if I manage to figure out why it is crashing.

    Thankfully, the daemon is automatically restarted after a crash, so it keeps working... But the annoying notification is displayed :S

  7. JoseExposito
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  8. JoseExposito
    closed this as completedin 6f415d0on Apr 1, 2022

  9. JoseExposito commented on Apr 1, 2022

    @JoseExposito
    JoseExposito
    on Apr 1, 2022
    Owner

    Hi again @rprinsen, I pushed a fix for this issue to the master branch in case you want to test it.

    I'll try to release a new version soon including it 👍

  10. heynnema commented on Apr 1, 2022

    @heynnema
    heynnema
    on Apr 1, 2022
    Author

    Good job on finding a problem. My touchegg hadn't crashed since we last spoke, so I hadn't been able to get more debug info for you.

  11. JoseExposito commented on Apr 1, 2022

    @JoseExposito
    JoseExposito
    on Apr 1, 2022
    Owner

    Good to know. I found it easier to reproduce after adding and removing a few input devices. Hopefully once the new release is out you won't experiment more crashes. Let me know if you keep seeing them.

  12. JoseExposito
    added this to the 2.0.14 milestone on Apr 2, 2022

  13. rprinsen commented on Apr 2, 2022

    @rprinsen
    rprinsen
    on Apr 2, 2022

    Thanks for the quick fix @JoseExposito!
    I'll wait for the new release to be available through the ppa (i see you did a release just now 👍 )

    Will let you know the results!

  14. stweil
    added a commit that references this issue on Feb 2, 2026

    libinput-gesture-gatherer: warn on error opening device

    6f415d0
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