[Linux] Black interface and crash

Bugs
#1

Hi,

Since last weekend update to my OS based on Arch, vital interface is now showing black, although I can still interact and the audio still works properly.

During my attempts, I tried standalone and through reaper and bitwig. Vital tends to crash on opening, but when it works, it’s a black interface. VST3, CLAP, and standalone version, same issue across the board.

screenshot for reference: https://imgur.com/a/FGsHvoq

Only output I am getting from standalone via the terminal is this:

fish: Job 1, ‘Vital’ terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)
My ram usage barely goes up, and I had over 20Gb free at the time of testing.

After few attempts, the synth may open but with the black interface, and the ability to produce sound.
The system is running in wayland, and bitwig/vital run trhough Xwayland, which was not an issue before.

I suspect the fact that I am on AMD and a new major version of mesa was pushed (26.0.1).

Any help to try to figure it out would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

#2

Ok so, I suspect the issue to happen more as 26.x is rolled out on more distributions, leaving this for the future:

I got time to downgrade the graphic drivers to mesa 25.3.5 and vital now has an interface again, as expected. Every mesa libs (that are not provided directly by the driver) are still running on the 26.0.1 base.
It is either an issue on the side of the core driver, or in how vital interface handles rendering. I don’t expect this to be looked into as this project seems abandoned.

I’ll update this post when a new mesa update is pushed for informative purposes. But for now, vital being the only affected plugins/software, I will use something else.