Corrupt graphics in Firefox using AMD embedded graphics

[#&thj^%]

What shows with:

ls /home/pryan/.config/ibus/bus

This smells like using sudo with a GUI

[peterx14]

There's no "ibus" dir within ~/.config

~$ find -iname 'ibus*'
./snap/firefox/3728/.config/ibus
./snap/firefox/3779/.config/ibus

ahhh.... although the ibus within the snap dir contains a "bus" symlink to /home/pryan/.config/ibus/bus <-- which is obviously a broken link.

Although... (1). I don't think the ibus/bus has disappeared, but never existed in this desktop environment? and (2). Even when I boot into Recovery Mode and Firefox works, I guess the same warning about ibus/bus not being a dir.

Possibly this part of the message (when Firefox doesn't work) is related to it?

ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

[#&thj^%]

A proper return for a snap firefox will look like:

 env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop /snap/bin/firefox %u
[163447, Main Thread] WARNING: GTK+ module /snap/firefox/3779/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.
GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

(firefox:163447): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:51:57.249: GTK+ module /snap/firefox/3779/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.
GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.
Gtk-Message: 11:51:57.249: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
[Parent 163447, Main Thread] WARNING: open /home/me/snap/firefox/3779/.config/ibus/bus failed: Permission denied: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

(firefox:163447): IBUS-WARNING **: 11:51:57.400: open /home/me/snap/firefox/3779/.config/ibus/bus failed: Permission denied
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

Please try:

sudo chown root:root /home/pryan/.config/ibus/bus

And start firefox again.
BTW

There's no "ibus" dir within ~/.config

It's there with the proper path

ls /home/me/.config/ibus/bus
55b959beaf3c4e8c885de71ed85401c1-unix-0

[#&thj^%]

Firefox relies on ibus:

find -iname 'ibus*' 
./snap/surfshark/10/.config/ibus
./snap/firefox/3779/.config/ibus
./.config/ibus
./.cache/ibus
./.var/app/com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher/data/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/Browser/.config/ibus
./.var/app/com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher/config/ibus
./.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/ibus
./.var/app/org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher/config/ibus
./.var/app/org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher/data/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/Browser/.config/ibus

snap info firefox
name:      firefox
summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozilla✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
contact:   https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
license:   unset
description: |
  Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web
  application technologies.
commands:
  - firefox
  - firefox.geckodriver
snap-id:      3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 10:40 MST
channels:
  latest/stable:    122.0.1-1    2024-02-06 (3779) 275MB -
  latest/candidate: 123.0-3      2024-02-14 (3836) 279MB -
  latest/beta:      123.0b9-1    2024-02-09 (3806) 279MB -
  latest/edge:      124.0a1      2024-02-17 (3852) 298MB -
  esr/stable:       115.7.0esr-1 2024-01-23 (3671) 255MB -
  esr/candidate:    115.8.0esr-1 2024-02-13 (3827) 256MB -
  esr/beta:         ↑                                    
  esr/edge:         ↑                                    
installed:          122.0.1-1               (3779) 275MB -

[peterx14]

$ sudo chown root:root /home/pryan/.config/ibus/bus
chown: cannot access '/home/pryan/.config/ibus/bus': No such file or directory

As mentioned... ibus/bus does not exist!

I've also checked backups and I can see no sign of ~/.config/ibus having previously existed and being removed... so I suspect this isn't the problem. I'm happy to be proved wrong on that, but it looks to me like the issue is something to do with the graphics/X11 or something having been updated and slightly broken in the process.

FYI: I *really* appreciate all your help with this. I'm giving up for tonight, so it'll likely be at least 24 hours before I post again. Thanks again!!

[#&thj^%]

Xubuntu here as well and you can see the differences between your and mine.

EDIT: even on Arch

find -iname 'ibus*' |grep firefox
./snap/firefox/3779/.config/ibus

[#&thj^%]

What version of Xubuntu are you on?

here is something you may want to try:

cd && ls -al |grep -e snap -e.mozilla
## Mine
drwxrwxr-x   4 me   me            4 Nov 29 20:18 .mozilla
drwx------   4 me   me            4 Feb 15 13:30 snap
drwxrwxr-x   5 me   me           11 Nov 29 20:39 unsnap

backup and move ".config" out of the way.

mv .config  .config.bk

Login again, and now any better?
To revert:

mv .config.bk  .config

I have 3 Xubuntu installs>>>24.04 (Development) all show the "ibus/bus".
This problem has me very curious.

[digitaltinker]

I've had this before, and I've just reloaded my system and the error is back. Problem disappears if you use Wayland but maybe you can't because of apps you use. I'll report back here if I find another fix. And it affects other snaps, not just firefox but chromium for example.

[#&thj^%]

I've had this before, and I've just reloaded my system and the error is back. Problem disappears if you use Wayland but maybe you can't because of apps you use. I'll report back here if I find another fix. And it affects other snaps, not just firefox but chromium for example.

As of now there is no option for a wayland session on Xubuntu.

[MAFoElffen]

Please do this and post the results withi Code Tags:

sudo lspci -nnnk | grep -A3 -E 'Display|VGA|3D'

I looked up "AMD Athlon 3000G" at AMD, and I see: Radeon Vega 3

Which for that, also show the results of

grep . /proc/cmdline