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dogunbound

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Registered: 2020-04-20

Posts: 8

Firefox nightly fails at initializing blitter engine

I like using the nightly as it doesn't have a very annoying (IMHO breaking) bug that the release version has, so I installed it through yay. But recently updating it isn't working. This is the last few lines in the output:

started SP3 server on port 8000
MESA-INTEL: warning: cannot initialize blitter engine
DRI3 not available
failed to load driver: zink
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
MESA-INTEL: warning: cannot initialize blitter engine
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
console.error: (new Error("Unexpected content-type \"text/plain;charset=US-ASCII\"", "resource://services-settings/Utils.sys.mjs", 406))
vulkan: No DRI3 support detected - required for presentation
Note: you can probably enable DRI3 in your Xorg config
MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 395777
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Firefox exited with code 11 during profile initialization
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: firefox-nightly-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
firefox-nightly - exit status 4

Any idea what I can do to fix the compilation?

Last edited by dogunbound (2024-03-15 14:32:05)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Firefox nightly fails at initializing blitter engine

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

It seems be a problem in the intel vulkan driver[1] [2] .
As a workaround you can try installing vulkan-swrast to provide a software vulkan implementation .

Incase you want to investigate further, post the outputs of :

$ lspci -k
$ vulkaninfo --summary  #comes_with_vulkan-tools
$ glxinfo -B                      #comes_with_mesa-utils

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10608
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10600

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dogunbound

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Registered: 2020-04-20

Posts: 8

Re: Firefox nightly fails at initializing blitter engine

Awesome that works. I don't care to dive deep. Thank you!

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Re: Firefox nightly fails at initializing blitter engine

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

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