Blender don’t start after updating

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Hey guys, I just created this topic three days ago regarding Blender not starting after update. I was instructed to install the mesa-nonfree package, and Blender started working again. This morning I updated the system and Blender stopped working again, even with mesa-nonfree already enabled.

blender                                                                                        ✔ 
Read prefs: "/home/denielton/.config/blender/3.6/config/userpref.blend"
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  blender

I open /tmp/blender.crash.txt but there’s absolutely no information.

I tried to re-enable mesa-nonfree and got:

sudo pacman -Syu                                                                           ✔ 
error: could not register 'mesa-nonfree' database (database already registered)
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 mesa-nonfree                            9.0 KiB  14.7 KiB/s 00:01 [####################################] 100%
 core                                  142.6 KiB   257 KiB/s 00:01 [####################################] 100%
 extra                                   8.6 MiB  6.22 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################] 100%
 community                              29.0   B   130   B/s 00:00 [####################################] 100%
 multilib                              146.5 KiB   326 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

I tried to install and remove opencl-amd, but the problem persists regardless it being installed or not.

inxi -Fxz                                                                                      ✔ 
System:
  Kernel: 6.3.13-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
    Desktop: GNOME v: 44.4 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-GAMING/BR v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2006
    date: 11/13/2019
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 2
    cache: L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1759 high: 3400 min/max: 1550/3400 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 1739 2: 1270 3: 3400 4: 1383 5: 1546 6: 1550 7: 2610 8: 1417 9: 1550
    10: 1550 11: 1550 12: 1547 bogomips: 81470
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 bus-ID: 08:00.0
    temp: 56.0 C
  Device-2: A4Tech REDRAGON Live Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 3-4:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~74Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.7-1 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series
    (polaris10 LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.52 6.3.13-2-MANJARO) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.3
  Device-3: FIFINE Microphones K670 Microphone
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB bus-ID: 1-1:2
  Device-4: A4Tech REDRAGON Live Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 3-4:3
  API: ALSA v: k6.3.13-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.79 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000
    bus-ID: 07:00.0
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-3:8
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 316.15 GiB (70.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 438.75 GiB used: 316.15 GiB (72.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16.29 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 57.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1174
Info:
  Processes: 343 Uptime: 20m Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.4 GiB
  used: 3.71 GiB (15.8%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: 1430 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 inxi: 3.3.29

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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No idea about blender, but you are running an unsupported kernel.

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Hello. I have the same problem. the tmp file just says
# Blender 3.6.2, Commit date: 2023-08-14 14:05, Hash ffe93138751e # backtrace # Python backtrace
It seems like I installed the mesa-nonfree packages. Is there a way to know if I have installed the right packages?

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Is that a package from the repositories or is that a Snap or FlatPak?

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How have you re-enabled the mesa-nonfree repo?

In your /etc/pacman.conf there should be one line with
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mesa-nonfree.pre.repo.conf

The error above indicates that there are more repo’s with the same name.

:point_up:
:point_down:

https://kernel.org/

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Also, you should merge your .pacnew files. Apparently you have not done that yet, because you still have the Community repo in /etc/pacman.conf, and that repo was dropped two months ago already.

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Having the same problem (but I’m on Kernel 6.5.1). I have blender installed from official repositories “extras”. Anything wrong with installing Blender from that repo?

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Not at all, but if you have an AMD GPU, then you need to install mesa-nonfree. :arrow_down:

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Yeah, I thought the same. I updated the kernel but the problem persists.

I found a way around the problem:

Blender version 3.6.2 works fine when downloaded from blender.org, so I just downloaded it, and in the desktop file I refer it using the exec file by changing the line Exec= in /usr/share/applications/blender.desktop

Now it its:

Name=Blender
GenericName=3D modeler
Comment=3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
Exec=/home/denielton/Blender/blender362/blender %f
Icon=blender
Terminal=false
Type=Application
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true
Categories=Graphics;3DGraphics;
MimeType=application/x-blender;

Now it’s working just fine. The bug is being discussed here in an Arch Linux forum.

I hope it helps.

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Which gives us:

I also needed to manually install yaml-cpp (which doesn’t actually seem to be listed as a dependency for blender) and opencolorio from extra-testing, but having done so, I can also now confirm that blender-17:3.6.2-6 solves the problem for me. Thank you!

So an update will fix if dependencies yaml-cpp and opencolorio (similarly updated) are included.

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Thanks, I installed that via the instructions from nonfree.eu, but Blender still crashes at startup.

What are our options right now via pacman? Downgrade Blender?

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Downgrading Blender doesn’t work also, at least not for me.

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hello, its the one found in the repositories

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Thank you for linking to the bug discussion. That made it clear there’s a simpler solution for users to the problem: Install Blender from Flathub!

I’d recommend doing that for the time being because you’ll get updates automatically and don’t have to edit the desktop file manually.

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Gonna do this! Thank you so much for the tip.

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