mesa crashes firefox

molqr · 2012-02-03 05:47:26

firefox crashes when i visit the site github.com i was not able to find out other sites that it crashes on but it works just fine on youtube or google.

i tried running firefox without any plugins or themes and when it crashed it produced this output below

$ firefox
Mesa 7.11.2 implementation error: unexpected format in _mesa_choose_tex_format()
Please report at bugs.freedesktop.org
Mesa 7.11.2 implementation error: unexpected MESA_FORMAT for renderbuffer
Please report at bugs.freedesktop.org
###!!! ABORT: Divide by zero: file /build/src/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp, line 174
###!!! ABORT: Divide by zero: file /build/src/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp, line 174
Segmentation fault

this suggests that mesa might be causing the problem. i personally do not use any fancy desktop environment or window manager. so do i really need mesa? will all websites display properly in firefox without mesa?

Mozilla Firefox 10.0
mesa 7.11.2-1
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
xf86-video-intel

[edit]
checked /var/cache/pacman/pkg and noted that mesa-7.11.2-1 is the most recent mesa package and it was updated on November 28, 2011 on my laptop ... however i did not experience any such problem with firefox crashing during December 2011 or January 2012
i should also add that firefox-9.0.1-1 was also crashing before i updated to 10.0.

Last edited by molqr (2012-02-03 06:30:51)

mfs · 2012-02-04 10:42:06

Did you try to reinstall mesa? To uninstall it, delete config and reinstall, you could

pacman -Rndds mesa && pacman -S mesa

furakon · 2012-02-04 12:44:20

Maybe an advise at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42128 would help you.

awhan wrote:

just noticed that setting webgl.disabled to true in the about:config settings
of firefox lets me get away with the crashing when i visit github.com
incidently as mentioned in this bug report
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42611 firefox crashes when i visit
http://get.webgl.org/ as well

molqr · 2012-02-11 04:52:47

furakon wrote:

Maybe an advise at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42128 would help you.

yes sir, setting webgl.disabled to true in the about:config settings works great! also i did not experience and setback in performance on most of the sites.

[edit : some wrong pastes ]
i must mention that my laptop is a very very old model and gnome3 shell does not work ... so i guess i won't be missing any webgl coolness.

Last edited by molqr (2012-02-11 05:06:09)

molqr · 2012-02-11 05:05:22

mfs wrote:

Did you try to reinstall mesa? To uninstall it, delete config and reinstall, you could
pacman -Rndds mesa && pacman -S mesa

thank you for the suggestion but this did not work

Götz · 2012-02-25 20:11:46

molqr, to prevent Firefox from crashing, in about:config change webgl.disabled to true.
WebGL can't be used in that hardware so you won't loose anything.

More info:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696636
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42128

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#1 2012-02-03 05:47:26

mesa crashes firefox

#2 2012-02-04 10:42:06

Re: mesa crashes firefox

#3 2012-02-04 12:44:20

Re: mesa crashes firefox

#4 2012-02-11 04:52:47

Re: mesa crashes firefox

#5 2012-02-11 05:05:22

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#6 2012-02-25 20:11:46

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