** Description changed:

  I've identified a regression with the latest update to the NVIDIA 550
  drivers in Ubuntu 22.04. This prevents any libadwaita apps from
  launching while using the Wayland display server.
  
  It appears that the latest available NVIDIA 550.107.02 package pulls in
  some new dependencies, such as libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and some other
  i386 support packages (libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 libwayland-
  client0:i386 libffi8:i386). They seem to enable Wayland support out of
  the box, which sets Wayland as the default desktop for new installations
  of Ubuntu 22.04 (assuming software updates are enabled from the Ubuntu
  installer).
  
  However, any attempt to launch libadwaita apps from within Wayland with the 
NVIDIA 550.107.02 drivers installed always fails. When launching any of these 
libadwaita apps from the Terminal, it always returns one of the following three 
errors:
  - Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.
  - Gdk-Message: Error reading events from display: Protocol error
  - Gdk-Message: Error flushing display: Protocol error
  Some of the affected apps include gnome-text-editor, gnome-sound-recorder, 
and gnome-shell-extension-manager which are available from the standard Ubuntu 
repositories.
  
- When I researched these error messages, I found that other Linux distros
- also seem to be experiencing this bug, including Fedora:
- https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gdk-message-error-71-protocol-
- error-dispatching-to-wayland-display/127927/6
+ When I researched these error messages, I found that other Linux distros also 
seem to be experiencing this bug, including Fedora: 
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gdk-message-error-71-protocol-error-dispatching-to-wayland-display/127927/6
+ However, the "GSK_RENDERER=gl" solution in bhundven's post in that thread 
didn't work in Ubuntu 22.04 when I tested it.
  
  For reference, I was able to replicate this issue on an ASUS Zenbook UX303LB 
with an NVIDIA 940M graphics card running the newest available NVIDIA 
550.107.02 driver on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04.4 with all of the 
latest software updates installed. However, downgrading to an older version of 
the NVIDIA drivers (like version 535) without full Wayland support makes this 
error disappear, with either Xorg and Wayland selected from the login screen.
  In our testing, Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't seem to be affected by this issue in 
Wayland or Xorg. However, we also noticed that Ubuntu 24.04 still defaults to 
Xorg on NVIDIA 550.107.02, even with the latest updates downloaded by the 
Ubuntu installer (unlike Ubuntu 22.04).
  
  I'm aware that your team is preparing to launch Ubuntu 22.04.5 on 12 
September. However, as this is an out-of-the-box bug with the default version 
of the NVIDIA drivers for most NVIDIA users, it may be worth investigating this 
issue to avoid new users having a bad experience.
  Perhaps it might be worth sticking with Xorg by default in Ubuntu 22.04 
installations with the NVIDIA 550 drivers as a workaround?
  
  If you need any help or additional information when trying to replicate
  or investigate this issue, please let me know and I would be happy to
  help.

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Title:
  Latest NVIDIA 550 driver update in Ubuntu 22.04 causes libadwaita apps
  to fail launching in Wayland

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