Hello,
I recently installed KiCad 8.07+dfsg-2 in Debian Trixie using Hyprland, and when I try to run it I get immediately a segmentation fault error. What is more confusing about it, is that if I try to debug it using gdb the program runs and doesn’t seem to crash. I have had it running using other desktop environments, but for convenience I would like to stay in Hyprland and I know it can run, since gdb doesn’t show the issue. Any ideas on where to look? Any guidance would be highly appreciated
I think you can use systemd-coredump to see if there’s some other system component crashing:
Also there might be Wayland protocol errors (I think you can use WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 to see them).
KiCad doesn’t officially support Wayland nor Debian Trixie, so it’s best to report this to Debian + Hyprland or use Xorg.
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It was a bit hard to track the exact error but finally the segmentation fault was connected to nvidia, so I reinstalled the drivers and that solved it for my flatpak installation, although the version I had installed via apt remains broken.
I’m on older hardware and AMD but I had to stop using Wayland a few ‘upgrades’ ago. I get a cursor and nothing more. 
(Debian 12)