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Gdk-Message: 13:44:53.888: Error 22 (Invalid argument) dispatching to Wayland display.

Affected version

    • RHEL-9
    • mutter-40.0-5.el9.x86_64
    • Wayland
    • Fedora 35
    • mutter-40.0-6.fc35.x86_64
    • Wayland

Bug summary

When running our desktop automation tests - via python3 - the wl_display@1.delete_id will sometime attempt to delete the same display twice and the communication between client(python3) and compositor will end with message: Gdk-Message: 13:44:53.888: Error 22 (Invalid argument) dispatching to Wayland display.

Steps to reproduce

Reproducer is not 100% - it will occur in seemingly random places - so I will just attach log of it running: wayland_debug.log

In the log you can see it attempted to do the .delete twice:

What happened

Script ended with Gdk-Message: 13:44:53.888: Error 22 (Invalid argument) dispatching to Wayland display.

And journal entry: May 06 15:46:22 fedora gnome-shell[1000]: WL: error in client communication (pid 9582)

With pid being the script that started the test - which is behave(python3) script

What did you expect to happen

No error in journal and the communication between the client and compositor not being ended.