amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics breaks ghostty

[orb71]

The AMD driver causes Ghostty to break, whereas the issue does not occur with the default Ubuntu driver.

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release:	24.04
Codename:	noble

https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.3.2/ubuntu noble InRelease

strace -e open /usr/bin/ghostty

nfo: ghostty version=1.1.2
info: ghostty build optimize=ReleaseFast
info: runtime=apprt.Runtime.gtk
info: font_backend=font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
info: dependency harfbuzz=8.3.0
info: dependency fontconfig=21500
info: renderer=renderer.OpenGL
info: libxev backend=main.Backend.io_uring
info(os): setlocale from env result=en_US.UTF-8
info(gtk): GTK version build=4.14.2 runtime=4.14.2
info: reading configuration file path=/home/oli/.config/ghostty/config
info(config): default shell source=env value=/bin/bash
warning(gtk): setting GDK_DEBUG=gl-disable-gles,gl-no-fractional,vulkan-disable
warning(gtk): setting GDK_DISABLE=color-mgmt
warning(gtk): setting GSK_RENDERER=opengl
info(gtk): libadwaita version build=1.5.0 runtime=1.5.0
/usr/bin/ghostty: symbol lookup error: /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL_mesa.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_display_create_queue_with_name
+++ exited with 127 +++

ldd /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL_mesa.so.0

	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000764f1dd64000)
	libgallium-24.3.0-devel.so => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgallium-24.3.0-devel.so (0x0000764f1c000000)
	libgbm.so.1 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 (0x0000764f1dcdf000)
	libglapi.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglapi.so.0 (0x0000764f1dcaa000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x0000764f1dc7f000)
	libX11-xcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x0000764f1dc7a000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x0000764f1dc4f000)
	libxcb-randr.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-randr.so.0 (0x0000764f1dc3e000)
	libxcb-xfixes.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-xfixes.so.0 (0x0000764f1dc34000)
	libxcb-shm.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x0000764f1dc2f000)
	libdrm.so.2 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x0000764f1dc16000)
	libwayland-client.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x0000764f1dc02000)
	libwayland-server.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-server.so.0 (0x0000764f1dbe7000)
	libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0x0000764f1dbe0000)
	libxcb-present.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-present.so.0 (0x0000764f1dbdb000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x0000764f1bf17000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000764f1dbad000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x0000764f1bc00000)
	libLLVM.so.19.1 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1 (0x0000764f15c00000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x0000764f1db8f000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x0000764f1be5d000)
	libxcb-sync.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-sync.so.1 (0x0000764f1db86000)
	libxshmfence.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxshmfence.so.1 (0x0000764f1db81000)
	libdrm_radeon.so.1 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_radeon.so.1 (0x0000764f1db6f000)
	libelf.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libelf.so.1 (0x0000764f1be3e000)
	libdrm_amdgpu.so.1 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_amdgpu.so.1 (0x0000764f1db5e000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000764f15800000)
	libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x0000764f1db58000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x0000764f1be36000)
	libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x0000764f1be2a000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000764f1dd66000)
	libedit.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so.2 (0x0000764f1bbc6000)
	libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x0000764f1be14000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x0000764f1bb92000)
	libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 `(0x0000764f1bb83000)`

[ajaytejareddy]

Please verify that you have installed the correct version of Ghostty. If you're not using an ARM processor, make sure to install the AMD64 version.

[msiler]

Same issue here. Ghostty was working perfectly on Ubuntu 24.04, and I was on the latest version. Then I installed the official AMD driver, and now I get the exact same error as above. When I switched to the AppImage version, it works fine.

[ellisonleao]

just got the same error here. It only works now with the appimage build

[Sabellaj05]

Same issue here after I installed the latest AMD drivers.

Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff) Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.5, 256 bits) (0xffffffff) Version: 25.0.0 Accelerated: no Video memory: 15829MB Unified memory: yes Preferred profile: core (0x1) Max core profile version: 3.3 Max compat profile version: 3.3 Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1 Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0

[alshdavid]

Same here:

$ ghostty
info: ghostty version=1.1.3
info: ghostty build optimize=ReleaseFast
info: runtime=apprt.Runtime.gtk
info: font_backend=font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
info: dependency harfbuzz=8.3.0
info: dependency fontconfig=21500
info: renderer=renderer.OpenGL
info: libxev backend=main.Backend.io_uring
info(os): setlocale from env result=en_US.UTF-8
info(gtk): GTK version build=4.14.2 runtime=4.14.2
info: reading configuration file path=/home/dalsh/.config/ghostty/config
info(config): default shell source=env value=/usr/bin/zsh
warning(gtk): setting GDK_DEBUG=gl-disable-gles,gl-no-fractional,vulkan-disable
warning(gtk): setting GDK_DISABLE=color-mgmt
info(gtk): libadwaita version build=1.5.0 runtime=1.5.0
ghostty: symbol lookup error: /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL_mesa.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_display_create_queue_with_name

[srayuws]

Same here. But I noticed that, if I run as root or with sudo, it can open.

I tried both the pre-built ghostty-ubuntu and build from source (1.2.1-main+79f8ea07a). Both fails with the same error message as above and works with root permission.

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update:
I noticed when running as sudo, it is not using wayland, but using X11.

[ForBai]

error still persists

[aYutaSekiguchi]

Same here.
It looks like a different version of libwayland-client.so is being loaded instead of the expected one.

$ ldd /usr/bin/ghostty | grep libwayland-client
	libwayland-client.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x0000726a166c2000)
$ nm -D /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 | grep wl_display_create_queue_with_name
# not defined on this library.

/opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 should be loaded to solve this issue.
So setting LD_PRELOAD works on my environment.

$ LD_PRELOAD=/opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 ghostty