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#1 2018-10-24 03:47:22

Salkay
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[SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

I haven't investigated it thoroughly yet, but does anyone have issues with the new version of Firefox freezing? I just upgraded from 62.0.3-1 -> 63.0-1, and Firefox freezes a minute or so after launch. There's nothing obvious in the terminal. I have 30 add-ons installed, so the next step would be to disable them systematically. Just before I embark on that length task, I just wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing problems.

I tested downgrading back to 62.0.3-1, and it's rock solid again.

[EDIT]
I tried updating today anyway, and it's been behaving much better, but still froze after ~3 hours or so.

Last edited by Salkay (2018-10-27 10:57:36)

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#2 2018-10-25 19:48:50

spinnau
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

I don't see any freezes with firefox 63.0-1 (only uBlock Origin Addon installed) on two systems with intel/wayland and nvidia/x11. I would start testing with a new empty firefox profile.

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#3 2018-10-26 09:23:00

Salkay
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

Thanks @spinnau. Here is a bit more information that I've collated.

  • I suspect I am getting more freezes after a resume from suspend.

  • There is nothing obvious on the command link, but in journalctl, I can see the following during the freezes.

    Oct 26 08:37:43 salkay-hostname audit[25829]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25829 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Chrome_~dThread[25831]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f173e55fbcb sp 00007f17483efb00 error 6 in libxul.so[7f173e556000+3c49000]
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Code: 15 05 48 8d 15 76 f5 d3 03 48 89 10 c7 04 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 0b 48 8b 05 af a5 15 05 48 8d 0d c0 f5 d3 03 48 89 08 <c7> 04 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 0b e8 4>
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: audit: type=1701 audit(1540503463.999:3056): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25829 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[25943]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25943 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[25908]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25908 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[25947]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25947 comm=43616D6572617320495043 exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[25883]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=25883 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[26906]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=26906 comm="Chrome_~dThread" exe="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Chrome_~dThread[25917]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f666b998bcb sp 00007f66755feb00 error 6
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Chrome_~dThread[25889]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f25c76aebcb sp 00007f25d12feb00 error 6
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Chrome_~dThread[26913]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f7b0f059bcb sp 00007f7b18ee8b00 error 6
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel:  in libxul.so[7f25c76a5000+3c49000]
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel:  in libxul.so[7f666b98f000+3c49000]
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel:  in libxul.so[7f7b0f050000+3c49000]
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Cameras IPC[28020]: segfault at 0 ip 0000555b9e919691 sp 00007f0279060870 error 6
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Code: 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 15 05 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Code: 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel:  in firefox[555b9e919000+26000]
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 48 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Code: 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: Code: 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 15 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 44 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 05 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 8d 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 48 
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname kernel: 15 
    ...
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 12782/UID 0).
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@33-12782-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=s>
    Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname systemd-coredump[12784]: Process 26906 (file:// Content) of user 1000 dumped core.
  • I tried disabling all add-ons, and it still froze.

  • The freezes looked a bit like graphics driver related perhaps? There were blocks of Firefox stuck in position, overlaying other windows. Hence, I tried disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox, but it still froze.

  • I tested a new profile, and it didn't crash, at least in the three times I tried to resume from suspend.

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#4 2018-10-26 15:36:04

trazalca
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

Salkay wrote:

I haven't investigated it thoroughly yet, but does anyone have issues with the new version of Firefox freezing? I just upgraded from 62.0.3-1 -> 63.0-1, and Firefox freezes a minute or so after launch. There's nothing obvious in the terminal. I have 30 add-ons installed, so the next step would be to disable them systematically. Just before I embark on that length task, I just wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing problems.

I tested downgrading back to 62.0.3-1, and it's rock solid again.

[EDIT]
I tried updating today anyway, and it's been behaving much better, but still froze after ~3 hours or so.

Me too, not only freezes but also crashing gnome with random reboots. Downgrading back to 62.0.3-1 and no problem at all.

Last edited by trazalca (2018-10-26 15:53:04)

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#5 2018-10-26 17:25:15

kaptenen
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

I was having the same problem. I had layers.acceleration.force-enabled set to true in about:config (to force hardware acceleration) but now I'm setting it back to false. No crash yet for me.

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#6 2018-10-27 09:41:20

spinnau
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

@Salkay: Did you already looked on that coredump?

Salkay wrote:
...
Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 12782/UID 0).
Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@33-12782-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=s>
Oct 26 08:37:44 salkay-hostname systemd-coredump[12784]: Process 26906 (file:// Content) of user 1000 dumped core.

To see if it's an upstream issue or a build problem, you could also download and test a firefox binary build from mozilla.

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#7 2018-10-27 10:57:24

Salkay
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

spinnau wrote:

@Salkay: Did you already looked on that coredump?

No, not yet. Because…

kaptenen wrote:

I was having the same problem. I had layers.acceleration.force-enabled set to true in about:config (to force hardware acceleration) but now I'm setting it back to false. No crash yet for me.

I tested this a few suspend cycles ago and it seems to totally fix it for me! Thank you so much for the answer and posting here. It was driving me crazy!

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#8 2018-10-27 12:06:39

kaptenen
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Re: [SOLVED]New version of Firefox freezing (63.0-1)

Salkay wrote:
spinnau wrote:

@Salkay: Did you already looked on that coredump?

No, not yet. Because…

kaptenen wrote:

I was having the same problem. I had layers.acceleration.force-enabled set to true in about:config (to force hardware acceleration) but now I'm setting it back to false. No crash yet for me.

I tested this a few suspend cycles ago and it seems to totally fix it for me! Thank you so much for the answer and posting here. It was driving me crazy!

No problem! It was driving me crazy as well. Hardware acceleration is not the most stable thing so I thought it might be the issue. Hopefully it will work later one.

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