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ExoDoom

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Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 35

[SOLVED] Chrome freezes with blank screen

Hi guys,

This morning, after a sudo pacman -Syyu (actually triggered by a yay -Syyu), chrome and brave stopped working. Every time I try to launch them, I get a blank screen. If I run google-chrome-stable from console, I get this:

[13928:13928:0329/091934.475193:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(43)] renderergl_utils.cpp:2152 (ClearErrors): Preexisting GL error 0x00000505 as of ../../third_party/angle/src/libANGLE/renderer/gl/TextureGL.cpp, set ImageHelper:256.                                                                                                                                                                                                   
[13928:13928:0329/091934.552940:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(43)] renderergl_utils.cpp:2152 (ClearErrors): Preexisting GL error 0x00000505 as of ../../third_party/angle/src/libANGLE/renderer/gl/TextureGL.cpp, set ImageHelper:256.

Googling a bit, I found this .config/chrome-flags.conf:

--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-oop-rasterization
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
--enable-accelerated-video-decode
--use-gl=desktop
--enable-zero-copy
--enable-vulkan
--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers

and error became this:

[20784:1:0329/092811.310197:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(122)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuChannelMsg_CreateCommandBuffer.
[20792:1:0329/092811.403698:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(122)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuChannelMsg_CreateCommandBuffer.

I managed to launch chrome with --disable-gpu flag, but I'd like to enable gpu (this is a laptop with nvidia gtx 1050Ti + intel integrated). And this is what I upgraded this morning:

$ sudo find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -mtime -2
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/                                                                                   
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/less-1:563-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/socat-1.7.4.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/filezilla-3.53.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gtk3-1:3.24.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/imagemagick-7.0.11.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/p7zip-17.04-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst       
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libwpe-1.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst   
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libfilezilla-0.27.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libxaw-1.0.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/pango-1:1.48.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ttf-dejavu-2.37+18+g9b5d1b2f-3-any.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/whois-5.5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gcr-3.40.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Any ideas?

Last edited by ExoDoom (2021-03-30 07:45:48)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,811

Re: [SOLVED] Chrome freezes with blank screen

On first guess I'd say the mesa update, does standard GL work?

glxinfo -B #Needs mesa-demos

ExoDoom

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Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Chrome freezes with blank screen

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Collabora Ltd (0x10de)
    Device: zink (GeForce GTX 1070) (0x1ba1)
    Version: 21.0.1
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 8438MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.1
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 2.0
OpenGL vendor string: Collabora Ltd
OpenGL renderer string: zink (GeForce GTX 1070)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 21.0.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 21.0.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16

And yes, I have just realized it's a 1070, not a 1050.

ianks

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Registered: 2015-06-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Chrome freezes with blank screen

Had the same issue. Downgrading mesa fixed it for me:

    sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mesa-20.3.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Last edited by ianks (2021-03-29 18:48:56)

ExoDoom

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Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Chrome freezes with blank screen

Thank you guys, downgrading mesa did the trick.