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mathematica and mathematica-light have been updated to 14.1. Matematica is being rebranded to WolframApp or just Wolfram. Because of that, you might have to update your current configuration according to Upgrading from Mathematica to Wolfram:

• The default $UserBaseDirectory is now ~/.Wolfram (you may need to mv ~/.Mathematica ~/.Wolfram)
• MATHINIT is now WOLFRAMNB_INIT (for additional arguments to Wolfram)
• MATHEMATICA_BASE is now WOLFRAM_BASE (for custom $BaseDirectory)
• MATHEMATICA_USERBASE is now WOLFRAM_USERBASE (for custom $UserBaseDirectory)

Wolfram offers two bundles for Mathematica: one with offline docs included, and one which relies on online docs. I have created corresponding version of the Mathematica package in the AUR:

• mathematica: As this package has historically always included offline docs, it will continue to do so now. As of 13.1.0, the package takes up around 14.1GiB with all documentation.
• mathematica-light: For those people who want a small package and/or want to use online docs, I have created this package which uses Wolfram's online-docs bundling of Mathematica. As of 13.3, the light version takes up around 7.2GiB.

@bryango iyanmv's idea of starting Mathematica with -mesa fixes your issues for me. See also: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/222365/36317

I upgraded from Mathematica 12.0.0 to Mathematica 12.1.0, and now I have some kind of render issue. When I'm typing in a notebook, there is a gray bar on top of the text. It is quite annoying to be honest. I have written to their support email, hope to get any answer. In the meantime, anyone facing a similar issue?

I have also tried to start Mathematica with -mesa option, but still same problem. I suspect this has something to do with the new support for HiDPI. They kind of change all default sizes.

@JP-Ellis I think the packages that I listed, along with espeak, ncurses, qt5-, and java-, are all bundled with mathematica in that directory and shouldn't be listed as optional dependencies.

@kjslag The list of optional dependencies was initially produced using the inspect namcap. I'll admit I do know know which are strictly necessary and I would love to narrow it down; however, Mathematica has so many components that I don't even know where to start and if it would be all that useful ultimately.

I can reproduce the issue of invisible 3D plots described on the stackexchange website. I also have an issue where the text on the frame of Plot3D is not rendered well, which I think also just started with mathematica 12.1. I do not know how to fix either issue. bryango, you should consider reporting this to Wolfram.

I'm using mathematica 12.1 (installed March 19) on arch linux with KDE, a 4k screen, and intel GPU. I last updated my packages on May 1st.

JP-Ellis, where did this list of optional dependencies come from? For example, why is intel-mkl, freetype2, gmp, libssh2, openssl on the list? I think Mathematica is bundled with these libraries (and probably many of the others) in /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64/

Below is my list of optional dependencies:

alsa-lib [installed]
atk [installed]
cairo [installed]
clucene [installed]
cuda
curl [installed]
espeak [installed]
ffmpeg [installed]
fluidsynth [installed]
fontconfig [installed]
freetype2 [installed]
gdk-pixbuf2 [installed]
glib2 [installed]
glu [installed]
gmime
gmp [installed]
gtk2 [installed]
harfbuzz [installed]
icu [installed]
intel-mkl [installed]
intel-tbb [installed]
java-environment [installed]
java-runtime [installed]
lame [installed]
lcms2 [installed]
leptonica
libbson
libffi [installed]
libjpeg-turbo [installed]
libmad [installed]
libmongoc
libnet [installed]
libogg [installed]
libpng12 [installed]
libselinux
libsm [installed]
libssh2 [installed]
libutil-linux [installed]
libwebp [installed]
libx11 [installed]
libxml2 [installed]
libxslt [installed]
libxtst [installed]
libxxf86vm [installed]
mesa-demos: for improved graphics output [installed]
ncurses [installed]
nvidia-utils [installed]
opencv
openssl-1.0 [installed]
pango [installed]
pixman [installed]
portaudio [installed]
postgresql-libs [installed]
qt5-multimedia [installed]
qt5-svg [installed]
qt5-webengine [installed]
qt5-xmlpatterns [installed]
r [installed]
tesseract
zlib [installed]

@bryango From the log, I would start with installing the Qt dependencies. Not sure which exactly is the culprit, but that's my first guess :) Thanks for the help!

@JP-Ellis Thank you very much for the hint! It is indeed a front end issue; the buggy commands works fine when executed from wolfram command line. However, the crash log seems to be less useful... I've put it here: https://pastebin.com/k8hUQNzL. I'll start checking optional dependencies; it might take some time though.

Update: I've checked, I got all your dependencies, and more... Maybe the issue lies in the packages that you do not have... I'll check later!

@bryango I can't replicate this issue on my end so I'm going to guess this is an issue due to a missing optional dependency.

Can you do two things:

1. Can you launch mathematica from the command line, cause it to crash, and tell me if there's any indication as to which library might be the culprit?

2. If the above doesn't help at all, can you check which dependency you are missing that I have installed. You can check the optional dependencies you have with pacman -Qi mathematica (the ones I have installed are below). Once we have narrowed down which package, I'll make sure to give an explicit description to inform others what the dependency is for.

I don't intend to make it a required dependency because I suspect this is an issue purely related to the GUI and thus a server installation with no GUI would not have the issue.

alsa-lib [installed]
atk [installed]
cairo [installed]
clucene
cuda
curl [installed]
espeak
ffmpeg [installed]
fluidsynth [installed]
fontconfig [installed]
freetype2 [installed]
gdk-pixbuf2 [installed]
glib2 [installed]
glu [installed]
gmime
gmp [installed]
gtk2 [installed]
harfbuzz [installed]
icu [installed]
intel-mkl
intel-tbb [installed]
java-environment
java-runtime [installed]
lame [installed]
lcms2 [installed]
leptonica [installed]
libarchive [installed]
libbson
libffi [installed]
libjpeg-turbo [installed]
libmad [installed]
libmongoc
libnet [installed]
libogg [installed]
libpng12
libraw [installed]
libselinux
libsm [installed]
libssh2 [installed]
libutil-linux [installed]
libwebp [installed]
libx11 [installed]
libxcomposite [installed]
libxml2 [installed]
libxrandr [installed]
libxslt [installed]
libxss [installed]
libxtst [installed]
libxxf86vm [installed]
mesa-demos: for improved graphics output
ncurses [installed]
nss [installed]
nvidia-utils
opencv [installed]
openssl-1.0
pango [installed]
pixman [installed]
portaudio [installed]
postgresql-libs [installed]
python [installed]
qt5-declarative [installed]
qt5-multimedia [installed]
qt5-svg [installed]
qt5-svg [installed]
qt5-webengine [installed]
qt5-xmlpatterns [installed]
r
tesseract
zlib [installed]

Running Plot3D[..., MeshStyle -> Opacity[0.3]] crashes my 12.0 with segmentation fault and produces an empty graph in 12.1. The latter is described in https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/221600; it seems to suggest that this issue is Arch (or maybe Manjaro) specific. I am currently using Manjaro 20.0.1.

Curiously, my 12.0 install worked fine before; it only broke after some recent system upgrades. Therefore, I suspect that these issues are, again, triggered by some conflicts between mathematica & system libraries. Has anyone encountered similar bugs with Plot3D[..., MeshStyle -> Opacity[0.3]] under 12+ on Arch or Manjaro? I would like to find a solution instead of going back to 11.3...