Firefox 30 crashing

miskcoo · 2014-07-19 05:14:58

When I open a music, firefox is crashing with no explanation. This is the output before it crashed.

(firefox:5561): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** (firefox:5561): CRITICAL **: gst_app_sink_set_callbacks: assertion 'GST_IS_APP_SINK (appsink)' failed
** (firefox:5561): CRITICAL **: gst_app_sink_set_callbacks: assertion 'GST_IS_APP_SINK (appsink)' failed
(firefox:5561): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_static_pad: assertion 'GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
(firefox:5561): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_add_probe: assertion 'GST_IS_PAD (pad)' failed
(firefox:5561): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_add_probe: assertion 'GST_IS_PAD (pad)' failed
[5605] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1522
[5605] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1522

I want to know how to solve it.
thank you...

Last edited by miskcoo (2014-07-19 05:15:33)

dxal34 · 2014-07-19 09:50:21

Has it worked before and ceased to after an update? It seems that gstreamer0.10 is broken. Try reinstalling it. Also post the output of

pacman -Ql gstreamer0.10 | grep -q coreelements && pacman -Qsq gstreamer0.10

Maybe it's just some plugin missing, though it is unlikely to cause crashes. You should also try reproducing the problem as root, as it can be a permission problem.

lolilolicon · 2014-07-19 09:59:24

dxal34 wrote:

You should also try reproducing the problem as root, as it can be a permission problem.

No. way. Your advice is even worse than the question.

AnAkkk · 2014-07-19 10:37:40

dxal34 wrote:

Has it worked before and ceased to after an update? It seems that gstreamer0.10 is broken. Try reinstalling it. Also post the output of
pacman -Ql gstreamer0.10 | grep -q coreelements && pacman -Qsq gstreamer0.10
Maybe it's just some plugin missing, though it is unlikely to cause crashes. You should also try reproducing the problem as root, as it can be a permission problem.

Firefox 30 no longer uses gstreamer 0.10, so this isn't going to change anything.

dxal34 · 2014-07-19 10:42:31

lolilolicon wrote:

dxal34 wrote:
You should also try reproducing the problem as root, as it can be a permission problem.
No. way. Your advice is even worse than the question.

I am sorry if it is, but I don't see in what way. I'm not aware of any possible security issues with running firefox as root, and if there are any, please provide some information on them. As far as I know,

gksudo firefox

does not yield any dangerous results.

dxal34 · 2014-07-19 10:57:41

AnAkkk wrote:

dxal34 wrote:
Has it worked before and ceased to after an update? It seems that gstreamer0.10 is broken. Try reinstalling it. Also post the output of
pacman -Ql gstreamer0.10 | grep -q coreelements && pacman -Qsq gstreamer0.10
Maybe it's just some plugin missing, though it is unlikely to cause crashes. You should also try reproducing the problem as root, as it can be a permission problem.
Firefox 30 no longer uses gstreamer 0.10, so this isn't going to change anything.

Oh, my bad. In such a case, gst-* packages are required, so their presence should be checked instead.

pacman -Qsq gst

lolilolicon · 2014-07-19 11:05:14

dxal34 wrote:

I'm not aware of any possible security issues with running firefox as root, and if there are any, please provide some information on them.

You wouldn't have suggested it if you had been aware of any security issues, would you? But the point is you don't tell people to run anything as root when absolutely unnecessary. Especially in the case of Firefox, 1. It's an extremely complicated piece of software, which also happens to run for example Flash; 2. It connects to the Internet, and does many things in the background. Specifically for the purpose of this thread, there is no reason running Firefox as root would help in any way, unless something is completely haywire with Firefox.

dxal34 · 2014-07-19 12:05:35

lolilolicon wrote:

dxal34 wrote:
I'm not aware of any possible security issues with running firefox as root, and if there are any, please provide some information on them.
You wouldn't have suggested it if you had been aware of any security issues, would you? But the point is you don't tell people to run anything as root when absolutely unnecessary. Especially in the case of Firefox, 1. It's an extremely complicated piece of software, which also happens to run for example Flash; 2. It connects to the Internet, and does many things in the background. Specifically for the purpose of this thread, there is no reason running Firefox as root would help in any way, unless something is completely haywire with Firefox.

Thank you for the advice! I really appreciate the detailed explanation and am sure to be more careful the next time I make a recommendation on forums. It's just that using root has been my preferred way for locating permission problems for a long time, and I'm yet to get accustomed to the responsibility of making public advice. But the lesson is learned.

Trilby · 2014-08-08 23:19:12

I just found this thread as I've been having the exact same problem with FF 31. I'd had sporadic crashes in the past, but it has gotten worse. Running FF from the terminal, I see the same message as the OP when it crashes (except the line number changed slightly between the two version. I've included the messages leading up to it here:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
intel_do_flush_locked failed: Invalid argument
[1946] WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 450
[1946] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1531

I've found this happen on many sites, but I just found one for which it is 100% replicatable (for me) and would appreciate hearing if this site works for others. I know nothing about this site except that it was the first result of a google search when looking up a game a friend was just blabbering on about:
http://www.agame.com/game/dots-2

For me, the site loads fine, then an advertisement plays. As soon as the ad is done and the 'game' starts to load, FF crashes with the above listed error message.

EDIT: I've been doing some testing, and it seems the VDPAU warning is not fatal. I do get that message in the log whenever that problematic page starts to load, but FF would continue to run for some time, and I can abort loading the page before the ad ends, and that message will be logged but the crash will be avoided. The intel_do_flush message, however, seems to be 'terminal' - once I get that message, FF is crashing.

I don't know if this is related, but I've had a hell of a time with the intel driver (and/or intel-dri, mesa) for quite some time. As a seemingly unrelated issue I'm getting regular kernel panics at boot or wake from suspend, and a similar "intel_do_flush" message is always one of the last in any logs that I can retrieve (sadly a very detailed upstream bug report on that issue has sat completely untouched for a month).

Last edited by Trilby (2014-08-08 23:24:59)

Pse · 2014-08-08 23:31:22

Trilby wrote:

I've found this happen on many sites, but I just found one for which it is 100% replicatable (for me) and would appreciate hearing if this site works for others. I know nothing about this site except that it was the first result of a google search when looking up a game a friend was just blabbering on about:
http://www.agame.com/game/dots-2
For me, the site loads fine, then an advertisement plays. As soon as the ad is done and the 'game' starts to load, FF crashes with the above listed error message.

Intel Ivy Bridge user here (HD4000 GPU). Just opened the link with Firefox 31 (standard build from extra). Waited for the ad and then the game to load. Interacted a bit with it. No crashes, sorry.

Last edited by Pse (2014-08-08 23:32:49)

Trilby · 2014-08-08 23:35:44

Hmm, I was just returning to confirm that it is an intel issue. But maybe one particular to me.

I just removed xf86-video-intel and intel-dri and replaced them with xf86-fbdev and I can no longer replicate the crash - everything works fine. All the 'graphics' look just fine too, so unless there is a reason to avoid it, fbdev might just be a suitable workaround for my issues until upstream at least acknowledges the bug report.

EDIT: miskcoo, I don't know if my issue actually was the same as yours, but just incase, switching from sna to uxa fixed everything right up for me.

Last edited by Trilby (2014-08-09 01:11:52)

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#1 2014-07-19 05:14:58

Firefox 30 crashing

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Re: Firefox 30 crashing

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