Sparrow doesn’t start on nixOS (aarch64)

[theprivacydesigner]

I’m trying to run Sparrow on nixOS aarch64.
I’m getting this crash as soon as I launch Sparrow, though:

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
glx: failed to create drisw screen
No display detected. Use Sparrow Server on a headless (no display) system.

2024-12-05 22:48:17,533 ERROR [main] c.s.s.SparrowWallet [null:-1] Unable to launch application
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Unable to load glass GTK library.
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.lambda$new$5(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkPlatformFactory.createApplication(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.glass.ui.Application.run(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.startup(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(Unknown Source)
at javafx.graphics@22/com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

System

• Sparrow Wallet 2.0.0
• nixOS 24.05.6668

Details
NixOS offers a Sparrow package but it isn’t compatible with aarch64.
This means it’s necessary to rely on the generic Sparrow binary and nix-ld.
NixOS cannot run dynamically linked executables and requires instead to create a library path that only applies to Sparrow.
The difficult part is listing out all the libraries Sparrow might need.
So far I have:

• xorg.libX11
• libGL
• gtk4

Could you please help me figure out which other libraries Sparrow relies on?

[craigraw]

Here are the dependencies listed in the .deb control file:

Depends: libasound2, libbsd0, libc6, libx11-6, libxau6, libxcb1, libxdmcp6, libxext6, libxi6, libxrender1, libxtst6, xdg-utils 

Probably, not all of these are actually used, but I haven't tried reducing the set yet as they seem fairly standard.

For the error you encountered, it may be worth prioritising software over hardware rendering with

_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Dprism.order=sw /opt/sparrow/bin/Sparrow

[theprivacydesigner]

Thank you, Craig.
Let me try and report back.

[craigraw]

Any feedback?

[theprivacydesigner]

Here’s where I’m at — for each library listed in the .deb I found the corresponding library in nixOS.

libasound2: alsa-lib
libbsd0: libbsd
libc6: glibc
libx11-6: xorg.libX11
libxau6: xorg.libXau
libxcb1: xorg.libxcb 
libxdmcp6: xorg.libXdmcp
libxext6: xorg.libXext
libxi6: xorg.libXi
libxrender1: xorg.libXrender
libxtst6: xorg.libXtst
xdg-utils: xdg-utils

Which I’ve then listed in my configuration.nix

...
# nix-ld
  programs.nix-ld.enable = true;
  programs.nix-ld.libraries = with pkgs; [
    glibc
    xorg.libX11
    libGL
    gtk4
    pkg-config
    xdg-utils
    xorg.libXtst
    xorg.libXrender
    libextractor
    xorg.libXdmcp
    libbsd
    alsa-lib
    xorg.libXau
    xorg.libxcb
    xorg.libXext
    xorg.libXi
  ];
...

I can get Sparrow to tell me its version or print the help (./Sparrow -v and ./Sparrow -h).

When I try to launch it, though, I still get this error (./Sparrow -t gives the same error):

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
glx: failed to create drisw screen
No display detected. Use Sparrow Server on a headless (no display) system.

I’m unsure of what I’m doing wrong.
Please do let me know if you have any thoughts on what might be going wrong.

[craigraw]

Did you try prioritising software rendering as per my earlier post?

[theprivacydesigner]

Apologies for not trying earlier. I just did and I get this:

$ _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Dprism.order=sw ./Sparrow
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dprism.order=sw
No display detected. Use Sparrow Server on a headless (no display) system.

[craigraw]

See also #1648