The main problem was that Kdenlive stopped working.
I started in Kdenlive support and as the investigation progressed, the eyes are turning to Manjaro. I hope someone can shine some light on what is going wrong.
Kdenlive won’t start up anymore, even after timeshift’ing back and trying older versions of Kdenlive.
I’m on an updated Manjaro Gnome Wayland, dual boot, bumblebee Intel-NVidia 390xx hybrid, though nvidia module not found. I run Kdenlive from an appimage, which has always worked until now.
Installing though the package manager and from AUR, don’t work either. Even with a new user, Kdenlive did not start, and Kate also doesn’t start if that is a clue.
When I run the appimage, this is the output.
/data/Users/krist/Downloads/kdenlive-23.08.3-x86_64-A.AppImage
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Loaded icon theme: "breeze"
Loaded icon theme: "breeze-dark"
Starting render server
profilePath from $MLT_PROFILES_PATH: "/tmp/.mount_kdenliceo71O/usr/share/mlt-7/profiles/"
meltPath from KdenliveSetting::meltPath: "/tmp/.mount_kdenliceo71O/usr/bin/melt"
Empty metadata for "glsl.manager"
Empty metadata for "telecide"
plugin not available: "avfilter.acompressor"
plugin not available: "avfilter.aecho"
kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In file /home/freetalk/.local/share/applications/electrum.desktop, line 21: " "Invalid escape sequence \"\\\"\"."
kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In file /home/freetalk/.local/share/applications/electrum.desktop, line 21: " "Invalid escape sequence \"\\\"\"."
kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In file /home/freetalk/.local/share/applications/appimagekit_e1814ce1eb16b1c8d287ac96c321a9c-Electrum_Bitcoin_Wallet.desktop, line 32: " "Invalid escape sequence \"\\$\"."
kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In file /home/freetalk/.local/share/applications/appimagekit_e1814ce1eb16b1c8d287ac96c321a9c-Electrum_Bitcoin_Wallet.desktop, line 32: " "Invalid escape sequence \"\\$\"."
After that, there’s no new output, the fan starts spinning hard and eventually the system locks up and freezes, with a hard reboot remaining the only option.
Note, the electrum_xxx.desktop entries are not relevant. I moved the entries away from their locations, that error went away, and Kdenlive startup still failed.
This line could have significance, as on my system the GPU setup is Intel-Nvidia hybrid which I never got to work properly, meaning, Nvidia dedicated GPU is never used.
Empty metadata for "glsl.manager"
I deleted all cache like so.
rm ~/.config/kdenlive-layoutsrc
rm ~/.config/kdenlive-appimagerc
rm -rf ~/.cache/kdenlive
rm -rf ~/.config/session/kdenlive_*
rm -rf ~/.kdenlive/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/kdenlive/profiles/*
rm -rf ~/.var/app/org.kde.kdenlive/cache/
echo "and eventually:"
find / -iname "*kdenlive*" 2>/dev/null -exec rm -rf {} \;
On Live USB Manjaro and on a new install (manjaro-gnome-23.0.4-231015-linux65), Kdenlive worked, however once fully updated, I got the same issue. This is crazy.
The installation and update process didn’t go smooth either.
Install process
I only kept the commands, not the actual post I used to solve the issue, however, this post looks very similar.
# Error: The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command <pre>grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Manjaro --force</pre> returned error code 1.
manjaro-chroot -a
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=manjaro --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# Installing for x86_64-efi platform. Could not delete variable: Invalid argument grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Block device required
sudo modprobe efivarfs
sudo mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=manjaro --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
The multiboot startup process at this point didn’t work, but via boot override selection (by tapping F7 at startup), I could select Manjaro and continue booting.
When I logged in, my password was rejected. The same simple password I always use. Let’s assume human error which it most likely was not, whatever. I reinstalled with auto-login.
Update process
Then, once in Manjaro, pacman update was not able to do its job. I found and applied the following post and commands.
Corrupted packages/invalid keyrings during update - Support - Manjaro Linux Forum
sudo rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo rm -R /root/.gnupg/
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro
sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring
sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
sudo pacman -Sc
sudo pacman -Syyu
System updates completed.
Kdenlive doesn’t start.