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waybar fails to launch, citing that icons are not found, and bwrap crashes are noted, when using hardened_malloc. #4781

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waybar -l debug shows up with:

[2026-01-19 02:35:07.721] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0
[2026-01-19 02:35:11.486] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0
[2026-01-19 02:35:12.829] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0
[2026-01-19 02:35:16.570] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0
[2026-01-19 02:35:17.936] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0
[2026-01-19 02:35:21.677] [debug] Cmd exited with code 0

eventually crashes/freezes. the entire space where the bar should be is blank, and doesn't render anything, but the space is allocated for it. stacktrace shows bwrap crashes:

Jan 18 23:34:56 ArchTori systemd-coredump[2702255]: Process 2702253 (bwrap) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                        
                                                        Stack trace of thread 2702253:
                                                        #0  0x000074b1f7caa0fb pthread_kill (libc.so.6 + 0xaa0fb)
                                                        #1  0x000074b1f7c447c8 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x447c8)
                                                        #2  0x000074b1f7c2560d abort (libc.so.6 + 0x2560d)
                                                        #3  0x000074b1f80030d3 n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x20d3)
                                                        #4  0x000074b1f80033bb n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x23bb)
                                                        #5  0x000074b1f8003874 n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x2874)
                                                        #6  0x000074b1f78afb04 pool (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xafb04)
                                                        #7  0x000074b1f8020bde n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x6bde)
                                                        #8  0x000074b1f8020ce3 n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x6ce3)
                                                        #9  0x000074b1f803d760 n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x23760)
                                                        ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Jan 18 23:34:57 ArchTori systemd-coredump[2702266]: Process 2702263 (bwrap) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                        
                                                        Stack trace of thread 2702263:
                                                        #0  0x00007aafd00aa0fb pthread_kill (libc.so.6 + 0xaa0fb)
                                                        #1  0x00007aafd00447c8 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x447c8)
                                                        #2  0x00007aafd002560d abort (libc.so.6 + 0x2560d)
                                                        #3  0x00007aafd03780d3 n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x20d3)
                                                        #4  0x00007aafd03783bb n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x23bb)
                                                        #5  0x00007aafd0378874 n/a (libhardened_malloc.so + 0x2874)
                                                        #6  0x00007aafcfcafb04 pool (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xafb04)
                                                        #7  0x00007aafd0395bde n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x6bde)
                                                        #8  0x00007aafd0395ce3 n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x6ce3)
                                                        #9  0x00007aafd03b2760 n/a (ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 + 0x23760)
                                                        ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Tested on Arch, on Sway, Hyprland, Niri.

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