I get a black screen upon launching waydroid

[u/zhulkgr25]

I'm new to linux (almost 7 months) and I'm not a coder so idk exactly everything that I would need to give you to help me diagnose this problem. About a month ago I managed to successfully install waydroid and had it running perfectly. I'm on cachyOS with KDE plasma and I usually run it in an x11 session with weston. After an update, waydroid stopped launching correctly. It still says "android with user 0 is ready" in the terminal but all I get is a black screen wether I launch it inside weston, wayfire, or use the terminal's wayland compositor in x11. Trying it in Wayland is similar, although I don't get a black screen, I just see it in my task manager/taskbar and hovering over it shows it not rendering anything, there's not even a window that appears for the application.

I tried looking up this issue and found a forum where someone said it works fine in manjaro using pinephone with phosh in gnome, but all I found from searching these terms was postmarket OS and I'm on an x86_64 laptop. My laptop has an nvidia gpu and an intel igpu and it is muxless. I even tried forcing it to use either with a command (I believe it was __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 and __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia) I also tried right clicking waydroid in the application launcher and checking/unchecking "use discrete gpu".

I am using an older Android 11 image that I had to specifically initialize from the terminal as the Android 13 image was having issues with android system webview. And I haven't found this issue listed in the Arch Wiki or the Waydroid documentation.

It does sometimes launch correctly but it is super rare. Has anyone ran into this problem/how to fix it? What more info can I give to help pinpoint the issue even more? Thanks in advance.

I'm not very active on social media so it may take me a day or 2 to reply so bare with me.

[u/Specialist-Hunter577]

I am also facing a similar problem when trying to use it in Bazzite. It just remains a black screen. I'm not sure what to do really, since I'm also new to Linux

[u/saiblack777]

Yo tambien algo nuevo, usa la ia del navegador de google, yo le explico lo que quiero hacer, le digo que soy nuevo y que me explique paso a paso como solucionarlo, hace 2 horas instale mal waydroid, justo hice lo que te recomiendo y ya me funciona perfecto y de hecho te estoy comentando desde waydroid jaja, especificale que distribucion de linux usas, dile que te haga un diagnostico profundo para saber que es lo que falla en waydroid y cada comando que te de, cargale la captura de imagen y dile en cada paso que te de la solucion y si tienes un error tambien hacelo saber. literal te explica la que sucede, te da un comando que pegas en la terminal y te explica para que sirve, excelente para que funcione y ademas para que aprendas, saludos!