Chrome flickering - mpv hanging

furibund · 2018-07-31 18:16:38

Since 26th July ( update: 25th July evening )

- Chrome and its 'children' ( Vivaldi, Opera ) are flickering and unusable
- Webkit and Electron browsers don't work well either.
- the only browser without any problems is Firefox

- mpv hangs on first frame, only sound is going on

Any one, who has/had those problems, too?
No more idea here, what can be the reason.

Last edited by furibund (2018-07-31 19:32:43)

jasonwryan · 2018-07-31 18:19:07

The date is meaningless: read your pacman.log and see what was updated. In fact, paste your full pacman.log here.

You have also not included any relevant information about your hardware, your drivers, the versions of these or the applications.

Please read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Moving to NC...

furibund · 2018-07-31 20:07:07

Sorry for the start post, but I'm using Arch since more than 3 years on this machine without problems:

[2015-10-05 14:26] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-10-05 14:26] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm base base-devel openssh zsh grml-zsh-config grub'

Hardware:
Acer TravelMate B115-M-41RQ

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0e)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx, Celeron N2000 Series USB xHCI (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 0e)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 0e)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0e)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)

I thought, anyone might have encountered same strange problems.
'Strange', because only some applications are affected...

But maybe a new installation is inevitable.

jasonwryan · 2018-07-31 20:15:08

That's not a full pacman.log: that's two lines of one...

furibund · 2018-07-31 20:31:17

As I update almost every day, and in some days more than once, the pacman.log has 47269 lines, meanwhile.

jasonwryan · 2018-07-31 20:32:44

I don't care how many lines it has: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients

furibund · 2018-07-31 20:49:11

K, here it is:
https://ptpb.pw/Tl0K

loqs · 2018-07-31 21:03:21

[2016-01-23 17:47] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2016-01-23 17:47] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2016-06-16 23:00] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suy --noconfirm --force'
[2016-06-16 23:00] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2016-06-16 23:00] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2016-09-01 16:16] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2016-09-01 16:16] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2016-11-01 15:13] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2016-11-01 15:13] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2016-11-13 20:48] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2016-11-13 20:48] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2017-03-16 21:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2017-03-16 21:08] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2017-05-29 22:28] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm --force -u'
[2017-05-29 22:28] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2018-05-29 20:04] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suy --force'
[2018-05-29 20:04] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2018-05-29 20:04] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
....
[2018-07-16 08:00] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suy --noconfirm --force'
[2018-07-16 08:00] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2018-07-16 08:00] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

The above excludes running --force system wide multiple times in a single day.
Edit:
The system also uses or used archlinux.fr or another repo that supplied a built yaourt.

Last edited by loqs (2018-07-31 21:04:34)

seth · 2018-07-31 21:12:21

It also has every singe xf86-video driver installed…

=> Please post the output of glxinfo and your xorg log.

furibund · 2018-08-01 05:13:57

`glxinfo`:
https://ptpb.pw/uAmB

/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
https://ptpb.pw/WNEw

... and yes, I used yaourt until I changed to pikaur.

seth · 2018-08-01 06:12:21

The xorg log is slightly dated…

Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 31 14:28:10 2016

Output of

loginctl session-status

and please see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#General

furibund · 2018-08-01 06:40:59

.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log:
https://ptpb.pw/a5_I

`loginctl session-status` (obfuscated user):
https://ptpb.pw/brA7

seth · 2018-08-01 06:51:43

No interference from eg. gdm, but this is suspicious enough:

[    16.634] (II) intel(0): Textured video not supported on this hardware or backend
[    16.634] (WW) intel(0): loading DRI2 whilst acceleration is disabled.

Try to remove xf86-video-intel (actually all xf86-video-* packages) to try the modesetting driver.

furibund · 2018-08-01 08:01:00

- removed xf86-video drivers
- (re)installed xf86-video-intel

pacman gave me this info:

>>> This driver now uses DRI3 as the default Direct Rendering
    Infrastructure. You can try falling back to DRI2 if you run
    into trouble. To do so, save a file with the following 
    content as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf :
      Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option      "DRI" "2"             # DRI3 is now default 
        #Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna" # default
        #Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa" # fallback
      EndSection

- inserted

Option      "DRI" "2"

in existing 10-intel.conf

All apps are running as usual again.

Thanks for your help and for your patience!

furibund · 2018-08-01 08:24:29

The better solution is to eliminate the line

Option "NoAccel" "True"

from 10-intel.conf

I don't even remember, when this was necessary...

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