Blank screen after upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10

Anki Help
1

I upgraded to Ubuntu 21.10 and Anki simply shows a blank screen. When I start Anki from a terminal, I get this error message:

Qt info: Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.

I tried setting this variable, I tried other variables that other posts encouraged me to try, I reinstalled, I tried logging out and back in without Wayland, I tried it all with and without hardware acceleration. What more can I try?

Screenshot from 2021-10-08 11-31-43
Screenshot from 2021-10-08 11-31-431920×1080 119 KB

2

Perhaps it’s the same issue as this one?

https://docs.ankiweb.net/platform/linux/blank-window.html

3

Yes - thank you! That fixed it.

4

And, today, something in Ubuntu 21.10 seems to have updated and now Anki is again working without this workaround. Thank you for your work on this great program!

1 Like
5

Looks like they decided to revert the breakage for now: Comment #36 : Bug #1944468 : Bugs : glibc package : Ubuntu

Hopefully we’ll have a new toolkit version available by the time they introduce it again