Mesa 25.2.1 & artifacts in Gnome applications (Intel XE driver issue)

Shortly after the upgrade to Mesa 25.2.1, I started having artifacts (wrong colors, missing text & icons “jumping’ around & disappearing). I tried several things to pin down the problem without much success.

Reinstalled GTK4, Nautilus & Mutter….no change. Logs did not show anything out of the norm…..

I then ran Nautilus with debugging on & was getting a large amount of warnings about errors with Mesa layers. My debug check:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all NAUTILUS_DEBUG=Window nautilus

Currently, I’m downgraded to Mesa 25.1.7-1 without errors…..Just a FYI for anyone who comes across the same problems. This “could” be an issue with the Intel ARC Xe driver & Mesa.

Mesa bug report: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/13759

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can you add : kernel version, video card , also link video type
may be specific to video card Intel Xe ( here version B580 )

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There is a newer version of mesa than you have - 25.2.1-1 - which may fix the issue. There is also a new kernel this morning.

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Z890 Nova WiFi

Kernel: 6.16.3-zen1-1-zen (as of last night-still same problem)

Intel Ultra 7 265KF (20) @ 3.900GHz

GPU: Intel Battlemage G21 [Arc B580]

Memory: 9650MiB / 47833MiB

I think I’ll wait for the next Mesa & recheck…I reinstalled Mesa late last night…..had the same problems.

All in the bug report….but I’m adding it below.

More info with current Arch Mesa (25.2.1-2) running Nautilus admin:

[dean@ASROCK-Z890 Desktop]$ nautilus admin:/// ** Message: 08:33:55.482: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files

MESA-INTEL: warning: ../mesa-25.2.1/src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:979: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers

MESA-INTEL: warning: ../mesa-25.2.1/src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:947: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gdk-WARNING **: 08:34:39.156: Vulkan: ../mesa-25.2.1/src/intel/vulkan/xe/anv_device.c:188: One or more queues banned (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gsk-WARNING **: 08:34:39.156: vkWaitForFences(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gsk-WARNING **: 08:34:39.156: vkQueueSubmit(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gdk-WARNING **: 08:34:39.156: vkQueuePresentKHR(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gsk-WARNING **: 08:35:00.340: vkGetFenceStatus(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gsk-WARNING **: 08:35:00.340: vkWaitForFences(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)

(org.gnome.Nautilus:12324): Gsk-WARNING **: 08:35:00.340: vkWaitForFences(): The logical or physical device has been lost. (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST) (-4)