GUI Apps Segfault on Ubuntu 22.04+

[vesk4000]

Is your feature request related to a problem:

Hi, this isn't a feature request/enhancement, but there seems to be something broken with the issue templates -- there's no bug report template. I was actually confused, so at first I reported this on the main WSL repo, but since this is quite clearly something graphics related I decided to also report it here.

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4317]

WSL Version

2.3.24.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

Distro Version

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

Install Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 (via the Microsoft store, the terminal, or by importing a custom WSL Ubuntu distribution).
Run

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install mesa-utils
glxgears

Expected Behavior

I expect a window to open showing three gears. In fact, this works WSL for Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS:

Actual Behavior

It segfaults:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This happens when I try to run any (GPU-accelerated) app that I can think of. I've tried many different drivers and mesa PPA's, but none of them do the trick.

Diagnostic Logs

WslLogs-2024-10-21_19-12-01.zip

nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.51.01              Driver Version: 565.90         CUDA Version: 12.7     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650        On  |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   37C    P8              2W /   25W |       0MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

 ldd /usr/bin/glxgears
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffb8dd9000)
        libGL.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f7ce0097000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7cdffb0000)
        libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f7cdfe70000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7cdfc47000)
        libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007f7cdfb8f000)
        libGLX.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007f7cdfb5b000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7ce012d000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f7cdfb2f000)
        libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f7cdfb29000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f7cdfb21000)
        libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f7cdfb09000)
        libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f7cdfafc000)

Running with GDB gives:

(gdb) run
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
Starting program: /usr/bin/glxgears
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe1293640 (LWP 803)]

Thread 1 "glxgears" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffffff9c30 in ?? ()

[R-Bower]

fwiw, I had tons of segfault issues on my i9-13950HX, but it wasn't limited to GUIs, and it wasn't happening consistently. I fixed them by disabling the power saving settings in my laptop's BIOS.