Apple: crashes on closing vulkan hw cores
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Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
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Description
In the last few weeks a bug was introduced that causes cores that use a vulkan renderer to crash on content close. I have reproduced this with azahar, beetle_psx_hw, dolphin, flycast, mupen64plus-next with parallel-rdp/rsp, and ppsspp. This happens most easily on iOS but I have also seen it on macOS; I haven't confirmed whether it also happens on tvOS.
Expected behavior
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Steps to reproduce the bug
Version/Commit
ff65ab1879
Bisect Results
Bisect has been difficult because of the inconsistency and because of the instability of the branch over the last few weeks.
Present in the nightly version
Yes, this is reproduced in the nightly build
Platform & operating system
iOS 26.4, macOS 26.4
Affected Cores
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Environment information
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are identified. First reproduce the crash on iOS or macOS when closing content using one of the listed Vulkan-rendering cores, then compare behavior with the nightly build and commit ff65ab1879. Done means content closes without crashing across the affected cores.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- computer-graphics, desktop-dev, mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100