Gtk Incompatible issue in vtune-gui. How to solve it ? Thx.

[nmeng]

[SJLim_intel]

We've reached out to our development team about this vtune-gui issue.

Meanwhile, please check environment variables for GTK conflicts. Make sure you are not setting any environment variables (like LD_LIBRARY_PATH) that might cause the wrong GTK libraries to be loaded.

Also, we recommend try using "Remote Linux Target" or "VTune Profiler Server" features from host system rather than vtune-gui from the Linux target system.

User Guide:

VTune Profiler Server

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/user-guide/2025-4/use-vtune-profiler-server.html

Remote Linux Target

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/user-guide/2025-4/remote-linux-target-setup.html

[WiserOrb]

Any news on this front? It's still broken as of 26/08/2025

[NR_qs]

An issue for me, as well.

I'm on Fedora 42, using GNOME 48.4 on Wayland.

❯ ./vtune-gui

(process:97648): Gtk-ERROR **: 17:13:12.449: GTK 2/3 symbols detected. Using GTK 2/3 and GTK 4 in the same process is not supported
fish: Job 1, './vtune-gui' terminated by signal SIGTRAP (Trace or breakpoint trap)

Yet, running ./vtune-gui --help does work - as does running vtune-self-checker.sh

I'm attaching the output of running it with strace.

[optimizergal]

It seems like it might be trying to use a library related to Gnome that uses GTK 4. Can you try adding --gtk-version=3 after vtune-gui? It would be nice if there was more documentation related to the Linux GUI.

[WiserOrb]

I get an error:

Unknown arguments: gtk-version, gtkVersion

Furthermore this is an option used for electron apps. I don't know if vtune is one.

If true, developers should expose the option. Btw the issue is fixed in more recent electron version, so they could update it.

[NR_qs]

Linking the Electron 36 issue for posterity

[optimizergal]

Thanks for the response - I generally use VTune in CLI or web server on Linux, and last I remember it used wxWidgets. Since there was no Intel answer, I thought maybe a solution for the error in a different app might work.

From what I can tell of the logs from the other person, it loads GTK 3, then later connects to X11/X0, then loads mutter/wayland, and then GTK 4. Maybe somewhere there is a workaround; I'm not familiar enough with X11 or Linux GUI to know.

Otherwise I generally set up the web server for profiling on Linux, since I tend to use a remote server where setting up VNC is a pain. You can try that as a workaround. 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/cookbook/2025-4/profiling-applications-in-aws-ec2-instances.html

If you're not running on AWS, you can skip to the Run VTune Profiler as a Web Service section:

1. Run the VTune Profiler Web Service:

   <vtune_install_dir>/latest/bin64/vtune-backend –-allow-remote-access –-enable-server-profiling –-web-port=8080

   The vtune-backend command returns a URL with the private IP for the instance as well as a one-time token.

2. Replace the private IP with the public IP or DNS for the instance. For example, https://172.29.129.54:8080/?one-time-token=b8cafc89721e781161aba4ddcef5a718 becomes https://18.236.194.236:8080/?one-time-token=b8cafc89721e781161aba4ddcef5a718.

3. Copy the URL into your browser.